New: FluSurge Special Edition

2009 November 30, 12: 00 pm ET)

Is FluSurge v2.0 software previously available through CDC's website on the featured FluSurge www.cdc.gov/flu/tools/flusurge published. And based on a schedule program to provide special edition FluSurge software hospital administrators of adapting new-based estimate hospital employee health services demand 2009 H1N1 influenza during the surge. Compares the fans of the estimated number of featured FluSurge hospitalization and mortality of H1N1 flu (determined by the length and pathogenicity of users) and recognized group of people, required number of ICU care and support people need of H1N1 flu response from the hospital's existing buildings.

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Special Edition FluSurge evaluating v2.0 in particular hospital and pandemic flu affects FluSurge caregivers to help the Administrator Update, type H1N1 2009 hospital surge capacity. User can change any values that appear in the white text field, such as attack, duration, and rate of H1N1 pandemic and basic hospital resources (i.e. is ICU, ICU bed and fan), you can evaluate the length and the number of possible impact, and pathogenicity of fashion together.

Special will need to enter the age group of the language-specific to version FluSurge hospital. These groups 0-17 years old + 18 to 64, the 65-year-old. Also you can assign these resources influenza (H1N1) patient fans with a total capacity of the ICU bed bed ICU's specific availability will be to enter the total number and rate. FluSurge Special Edition builds a total number of deaths associated with H1N1 patient fans, provides a list of that impact hospital, hospital ICU capabilities, assumption data. This assumption data list, and clicking "change the prerequisites in the main menu page or view. You can change the

Have the opportunity to select the time interval between users in the H1N1 finally (6, 8, or 12 weeks) of is expected in the hospital, strength of the attack in the community. Attack is 15% (as well as the H1N1 infection spring 2009, 25% (is the most likely scenario might happen in 12 weeks duration of H1N1 infections of 25% and 35% (spring 2009 H1N1 infection of the more severe form) default default attack.

Age groups of the population in specific age restrictions by default, the United States represents throughout the country and region. Have been retrieved from the Census Bureau United States these values, estimate the population as March 1, 2008. (Http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh). Standby capacity to model specific hospital and community of users, you must change the age of the population in the light of the specific community.

Default attack 2009 was chosen to represent the rate of the possible attack of H1N1. You can change the value of these attack speed and pandemic period as stated earlier, the user has selected from the drop-down menu, select. Pull on the calculation of the number of older people who need hospitalization or death in the hospital uses the same methodology as a special issue of H1N1, FluAid KIA induced (in available: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/preparednesstools.htm).

People associated with the total number of hospitalization and pandemic H1N1 deaths, Special Edition depends on pandemic season seasonal FluSurge software get multiple results, use list of assumptions and clinical attack rate.

Hospitalized, but the most likely scenario, and death of maximum and average in this attack and is the minimum number of death with the lowest maximum number of script hospitalization, and in the ratio of attacks occur.

Special generates a graph of the speed of the attack and the number of views each week, daily distribution specified in the version FluSurge period.

You can find various buttons FluSurge Special Edition to provide additional information. Examples of these buttons labels "?", duration and attack speeds?? "and"interpretation"... specific pages of the presentation, you must select the button if you want a detailed description of the specific information.

Windows * operating system (Windows 2000 or later, MS), Excel (MS Office 2000 or later), 486 Pentium with at least 1 GB of hard disk drive RAM15 MB of storage space.

We have successfully downloaded and Special Edition FluSurge in various desktop and portable computer by using the following Windows operating systems, run it to run Apple doesn't or using other operating systems such as Linux machines *

* In the MS Windows and Office product author of Microsoft, Washington. It is not one, and then use the name trade to United States Department of health and human services guarantee that only commercial source identification certificate.

Download and specially, you must change the security level of Excel version FluAid before you.
You must run the following steps.

Open a blank Excel worksheet. Click on the Tools button, then click the macro security level in SecuritySet. Click the OK button. Double-click the file, and then Special Edition FluAid to open. To enable the macro if you disable macros or to disable macros, you click.

* We load and FluAid special we recommend Edition spreadsheet and save on your computer and open the spreadsheet to your computer. Rather than a Web browser, this spreadsheet open in Excel will be.

This beta test version of the software that keep in mind. Derived from the use of FluSurge Special Edition number of predictions actually thought as epidemic during operation. Is not what would happen if you will, must be regarded as measures.

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