Using the Abstraction-Decomposition Space Model of Medical Diagnosis to inform Simulator Requirements for Research on Diagnostic Processes

Medical diagnosis has begun to gain traction as a patient safety concern, but remains a difficult phenomenon to study in clinical environments. Simulation offers one solution to study diagnostic processes in realistic clinical settings, but the lack of guidance on how to design health careoriented simulation scenarios provides a considerable barrier to overcome. We describe the creation of simulation requirements to study clinician diagnostic processes by considering an abstraction-decomposition space model of medical diagnosis. The resulting simulation requirements suggest the model is a useful tool for discovering necessary features of the work domain that will prompt clinician diagnostic processes.