Public Health Preparedness Modeling

A user in New York asked for clarification of some of the inputs to the Clinic Planning Model Generator. Here is my response for everyone’s use.

Patient arrival batch size: Do the patients arrive in batches (because of transportation like buses)? If not, then just enter 1.

Batch size variance:What is the variance of these arrival batches? If they are always the same size, then enter 0.

Interarrival time variance: What is the variance of the interarrival times? If you do not have any data, you can enter 0 as an assumption.