Citation

Blood CG, O'Donnell ER. J. Med. Syst. 1995; 19(6): 457-464.

Affiliation

Medical Information Systems and Operations Research Department, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California 92186-5122, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8750376

Abstract

Modeling of medical resource requirements during military operations requires projections of disease and non-battle injury (DNBI) and wounded-in-action (WIA) rates. Historical data were extracted from unit diaries of infantry and support troops deployed during four previous combat engagements. A planning tool (FORECAS) was developed that uses the statistical distributions of DNBI and WIA incidence from previous operations to simulate injury and illness arrival rates under future scenarios. Output of the simulated data reflects the nuances of the empirical data.

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