What's new

04/01/2020 - Version 2.0.0

New:

  • Command line interface added with R implementation provided.
  • "Model Create tool" implemented
  • Support for models stored as JSON files
  • Support for importing reference data from Excel files
  • Qt upgraded from Qt 5.12.1 to Qt 5.14.0.
  • Bug fixes and improvements

15/02/2019 - Version 1.7.0

New:

  • 117 disease models included.
  • Improved run time.
  • Qt upgraded from 4.7.8 to Qt 5.12.1.
  • Windows 32- and 64-bit builds.
  • Electronically signed with security certificate.

30/01/2018 - Version 1.5.1

Changed:

  • "Model Maintenance tool" renamed to "Model Create tool".

Fixed ("Model Create tool"):

  • Health outcomes were disappearing from the outcome tree when re-rendering.

28/09/2017 - Version 1.4.11

Changed:

  • Export of aggregated results table to Excel includes only one row (2.5%, 50%, 97.5%) per model.

Fixed:

  • Disease models "Klebsiella pneumoniae 3GCRKP SSI" and "Klebsiella pneumoniae 3GCRKP OTH" where called "Klebsiella pneumoniae CRKP SSI" and "Klebsiella pneumoniae CRKP OTH" respectively.

27/09/2017 - Version 1.4.10

Updated:

  • Improved performance of saving models to Excel.

20/09/2017 - Version 1.4.9

Fixed:

  • Tuberculosis disease models were not recognized by the toolkit.

19/09/2017 - Version 1.4.8

Fixed:

  • 3GCRKP SSI and OTH are available in the "Select disease" but are called "CRKP SSI" and "CRKP OTH" in the "Models" once they're created.
  • ColRKP BSI duration of complicated is slightly wrong and should be aligned with uncomplicated.
  • CREC BSI case fatality proportio, parameter says "RandUniform(.2, 0.513)" without the "0" before the ".2".

Updated:

  • CRPA OTH (all 3 models) – the upper bound duration is 19 days (not 18).

18/09/2017 - Version 1.4.7

New:

  • Columns "Case per year", "Incidence per 100,000", "Deaths per year", "Mortality per 100,000" added to "Aggregated results table".

17/09/2017 - Version 1.4.6

New:

  • Tuberculosis models implemented:
    • Pulmonary tuberculosis (DS, mono-/poly resistant, MDR, XDR)
    • Low-mortality extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (DS, mono-/poly resistant, MDR, XDR)
    • High-mortality extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (DS, mono-/poly resistant, MDR, XDR)

29/08/2017 - Version 1.4.5

Updated:

  • Liechtenstein country removed from the tool and data sets.

28/08/2017 - Version 1.4.4

New:

  • Burden of antimicrobial resistance models implemented (BSI, RESP, SSI, UTI, OTH variants):
    • Escherichia coli (CREC, ColREC)
    • Acinetobacter spp. (MDRACI, CRACI, ColRACI)
    • Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MDRPA, CRPA, ColRPA)
    • Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
    • Enterococcus faecalis and E. faecium (VRE)
    • Streptococcus pneumoniae (PRSP, PMRSP)

17/08/2017 - Version 1.4.3

New:

  • Burden of antimicrobial resistance models implemented (BSI, RESP, SSI, UTI, OTH variants):
    • Baseline model
    • Klebsiella pneumoniae (3GCRKP, CRKP, ColRKP)
    • Escherichia coli (3GCREC)

06/04/2017 - Version 1.4.2

Updated:

  • Healthcare-associated P-BSI Burden of HAIs, transition gamma changed to RandUniform(0.198, 0.734).

28/03/2017 - Version 1.4.1

New:

  • Healthcare-associated P-BSI Burden of HAIs

05/10/2016 - Version 1.4

Changed:

  • Healthcare-associated pneumonia (HAP) beta transition changed to RandPert(0.001, 0.035, 0.09)

12/09/2016 - Version 1.3

Changed:

  • Chlamydia disease report adjusted
  • Mumps beta transition adjusted to 0.000015
  • HAP beta transition adjusted RandPer(0.011, 0.021, 0.09)
  • Default value of time discounting set to 0.
  • Heading of the 'Help' menu changed the to 'About'.
  • Life expectancy table updated to Standardized LE table – GBD 2010
  • Normal distibution implemented with input parameters mu (mean) and sigma (standard deviation). Can be used by specifying "RandNormal" in the tool. Tutorial adjusted to include reference to this distribution.

27/02/2016 - Version 1.2

Changed:

  • Separate entries in "Help" menu for descriptions of the toolkit, the 3rd party libraries and changelog.
  • Disease report for "HAI-CDI" updated.
  • Disease report and transition "gamma" for "HA Neonatal sepsis" updated.
  • New logo added.
  • Acknowledgements added.
  • Demographic data updated to EU/EEA 2014 data from Eurostat.
  • Option to paste data into table as "Constant", "RandUniform", or "RandPert".

30/12/2015 - Version 1.1

Fixed:

  • The toolkit was not supporting Windows XP. Now it is.
  • On certain instances of Windows the program logo was not displayed. Now veryfied to work on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10.

21/12/2015 - Version 1.0

First release