EpiPOD : community vaccination and dispensing model user's guide.

Berry, M. ; Samsa, M. ; Walsh, D. ; Sciences, Decision and Information

Argonne National Laboratory

关键词: Diseases;    Personnel;    Drugs;    Simulation;    Vaccines;   

DOI  :  10.2172/946047
RP-ID  :  ANL/DIS-08/8
RP-ID  :  DE-AC02-06CH11357
RP-ID  :  946047

美国|其它

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

EpiPOD is a modeling system that enables local, regional, and county health departments to evaluate and refine their plans for mass distribution of antiviral and antibiotic medications and vaccines. An intuitive interface requires users to input as few or as many plan specifics as are available in order to simulate a mass treatment campaign. Behind the input interface, a system dynamics model simulates pharmaceutical supply logistics, hospital and first-responder personnel treatment, population arrival dynamics and treatment, and disease spread. When the simulation is complete, users have estimates of the number of illnesses in the population at large, the number of ill persons seeking treatment, and queuing and delays within the mass treatment system--all metrics by which the plan can be judged.