TY - JOUR AU - Eichner, Martin AU - Schwehm, Markus AU - Duerr, Hans-Peter AU - Brockmann, Stefan O. PY - 2007 DA - 2007/03/13 TI - The influenza pandemic preparedness planning tool InfluSim JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 17 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Planning public health responses against pandemic influenza relies on predictive models by which the impact of different intervention strategies can be evaluated. Research has to date rather focused on producing predictions for certain localities or under specific conditions, than on designing a publicly available planning tool which can be applied by public health administrations. Here, we provide such a tool which is reproducible by an explicitly formulated structure and designed to operate with an optimal combination of the competing requirements of precision, realism and generality. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-17 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-7-17 ID - Eichner2007 ER -