Is there a way to suppress DALY and QALY observations?

[nikhilrowland]

After combing through the observations csv for my model I found that the vast majority of observations are DALY and QALY observations. I assume Synthea generates these automatically because they do not have an enounter ID associated with them. I was wondering if there was anyway to not generate these observations to reduce the file size.

[Jason Walonoski]

There is no command line option to do that.

Your choices are (1) filter out the data after export, or (2) change some code.

https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/blob/d4af94570aba5ba9b199d0071b6ca8be0763e441/src/main/java/org/mitre/synthea/export/CSVExporter.java#L517-L518

    String[] gbdMetrics = { QualityOfLifeModule.QALY, QualityOfLifeModule.DALY,
        QualityOfLifeModule.QOLS };

Change the two lines above to be:

    String[] gbdMetrics = {};

Then recompile and rerun and there will be no quality or disability adjusted life year data.

[nikhilrowland]

Thanks!