Publicly available software tools for decision-makers during an emergent epidemic—Systematic evaluation of utility and usability

Epidemics

Chau Minh Bui¹  C. Raina MacIntyre¹  Abrar Ahmad Chughtai¹  David James Heslop¹ 

[1] School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;

关键词: Epidemic modelling;    Software evaluation;    Decision support;    Outbreak response;    Systematic review;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.epidem.2017.04.002

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Epidemics and emerging infectious diseases are becoming an increasing threat to global populations—challenging public health practitioners, decision makers and researchers to plan, prepare, identify and respond to outbreaks in near real-timeframes. The aim of this research is to evaluate the range of public domain and freely available software epidemic modelling tools. Twenty freely utilisable software tools underwent assessment of software usability, utility and key functionalities. Stochastic and agent based tools were found to be highly flexible, adaptable, had high utility and many features, but low usability. Deterministic tools were highly usable with average to good levels of utility.

【 授权许可】

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