Design of non-pharmaceutical intervention strategies for pandemic influenza outbreaks

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Factors and their values considered in the 2 ^16-7 factorial experiments

Factor	Acronym	Measurement unit	Low level	High level	References
Global threshold	GT	Integer	10	50	[6, 29–31]
Deployment delay	DD	Days	3	7
Case isolation threshold	CIT	Days	0	1	[4, 11, 19, 27, 29, 32, 33]
Case isolation duration	CID	Days	7	10	[4, 11, 19, 27, 29, 32, 33]
Case isolation compliance
for workers	CICW	Percentage	53	75	[4, 19, 29, 33]
Case isolation compliance
for non-workers	CICNW	Percentage	57	84	[4, 19, 29, 33]
Household quarantine
threshold	HQT	Days	0	1	[4–6, 27, 29]
Household quarantine
duration	HQD	Days	7	10	[4–6, 27, 29]
Household quarantine
compliance for workers	HCW	Percentage	53	75	[4–6, 29]
Household quarantine
compliance for non-workers	HCNW	Percentage	57	84	[4–6, 29]
# of cases to close a
class in a school	CCC	Integer	1	3	[2, 4, 27, 31–34]
# of classes to close
a school	CCS	Integer	1	3
School closure duration	SCD	Days	21	42	[2, 19, 27, 29, 31–36]
# of cases to close a
department in a workplace	CCDW	Integer	3	5	[2, 4, 32, 33, 35]
% departments to close
a workplace	PDCW	Percentage	30	50
Workplace closure duration	WCD	Days	7	14	[2, 19, 32, 33, 35]

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