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From: Integrating a framework for conducting public health systems research into statewide operations-based exercises to improve emergency preparedness

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Epidemiologic Exercise Model. Figure 1 shows an operations-based exercise that can form the basis of a variety of study designs, such as a retrospective or prospective observational study. Sections labelled with a, b, and c indicate the simplified version of the model we used as a first step in actualizing the research framework. Notice that both the exercise scenario (perturbation) and/or injects can be randomly allocated to participants in order to conduct a randomized controlled trial.

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