Not able to generate the data

[surajpujari818]

What happened?

A bug happened!
Hi there, I am new to synthea. I used synthea toolkit for "Active medication" for
[RxNorm] 1049221: Acetaminophen 325 MG / oxyCODONE Hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet
data which can be seen in below snips.
I downloaded the keep.json file (which is in my downloads where i have dependency file also) and wrote command
java -jar synthea-with-dependencies.jar -p 1000 -k keep.json --exporter.fhir.export=false --exporter.csv.export=true

I am not able to generate the data. also it is taking very long time to generate even a 100 sample data.

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Environment

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- Java:Java JDK

Relevant log output

Running with options:
Population: 1000
Seed: 1720612014067
Provider Seed:1720612014067
Reference Time: 1720612014067
Location: Massachusetts
Min Age: 0
Max Age: 140
4 -- Jermaine675 Breitenberg711 (27 y/o M) Blackstone, Massachusetts  (38854)
Waiting for threads to finish... java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@31834a2b[Shutting down, pool size = 12, active threads = 12, queued tasks = 987, completed tasks = 1]
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to produce a matching patient after 1000 attempts. Ensure that it is possible for all requested demographics to meet the criteria. (e.g., make sure there is no age restriction that conflicts with a requested condition, such as limiting age to 0-18 and requiring all patients have a condition that only onsets after 55.) If you are confident that the constraints are possible to satisfy but rare, consider increasing the value in config setting `generate.max_attempts_to_keep_patient`
        at org.mitre.synthea.engine.Generator.generatePerson(Generator.java:493)
        at org.mitre.synthea.engine.Generator.lambda$run$3(Generator.java:377)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

[dehall]

Hi, sorry that your first experience with Synthea wasn't positive.
The short answer is, based on those settings that error looks normal. If you're looking for patients with an opioid prescription, I would recommend using a keep module with a different code, or even better, multiple codes with "ANY OF". Some suggestions:

• 1049625 "Acetaminophen 325 MG / Oxycodone Hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Tablet [Percocet]"
• 835603 "tramadol hydrochloride 50 MG Oral Tablet"
• 856987 "Acetaminophen 300 MG / Hydrocodone Bitartrate 5 MG Oral Tablet"

(Or, depending on your needs, you may want to run without using the keep module at all until you're sure you need it:
java -jar synthea-with-dependencies.jar -p 1000 --exporter.fhir.export=false --exporter.csv.export=true)

What happened was the code you selected is only used in one place in Synthea, and upon closer inspection it's only applicable during the simulation from 1990-2014. There's a newer opioids module that is applicable from 2014 onward that uses the other codes I mentioned above.