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Article about EMCAPS

March 13th, 2009 · No Comments
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An article about the Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios tool (EMCAPS) appeared in February 2009 issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. (EMCAPS was mentioned previously in this blog back on December 4, 2007.)

“Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment and Planning Scenarios (EMCAPS): Development and Application of Computer Modeling to Selected National Planning Scenarios for High-Consequence Events” is by James J. Scheulen, Meridith H. Thanner, Edbert B. Hsu, Christian K. Latimer, Jeffrey Brown, and Gabor D. Kelen. The article lists the scenarios that are included in the tool, describes its functionality, includes some snapshots of the tool, and presents some sample outputs as well.