Sg2 – a Vizient company – has released a COVID-19 Surge Demand Calculator, a scenario planning tool that calculates market-specific, age-adjusted projections of non-ICU bed, ICU and ventilator demand.
Calculations are based on varying transmission rates observed internationally as initial disease spread, mitigation and containment strategies play out.
Updated July 1:
New features allow you to model subsequent COVID-19 surges after relaxation of social distancing rules and more granularly adjust impacts of social distancing within your market.
As cities coast to coast lock down to combat COVID-19, hospital leaders are locked in on capacity implications. The impact of COVID-19 varies widely across the country. Health care infrastructure in some cities is already under tremendous pressure; in others, a tipping point is still weeks away.
Time is of the essence, and experts from Sg2, a Vizient® company, have developed the insights and resources you need to inject data-driven planning for inpatient bed and ICU capacity to inform your surge response.
The COVID-19 Surge Demand Calculator is a scenario planning tool that calculates market-specific, age-adjusted projections of non-ICU bed, ICU and ventilator demand, based on varying transmission rates observed internationally as initial disease spread, mitigation and containment strategies play out. The calculator incorporates infectious disease modeling specific to COVID-19 and has been vetted by hospital systems, Vizient biostatisticians, and epidemiologic and pandemic experts.
This tool's unique in its approach to modeling market-level ICU, non-ICU and ventilator demand due to COVID-19
Learn how surge demand can be modeled for your organization for ICU beds, medical/surgery beds and ventilator demand; context relevant in understanding the timing of the demand for COVID-19; and statistical underpinnings of modeling in an epidemic.
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