| Introduction | An overview of how hospital and health system officials use BERM in bioterrorism and epidemic emergency response planning. | |
| Getting Started | A quick run-through on how to use BERM. | |
| 1. User Inputs | Questions on population, staffing, and response scenario: the basis for calculating staff requirements for community-wide prophylaxis. | Help |
| 2. Overall Model Outputs | Model outputs for the proposed prophylaxis campaign, including patient flow, number of clinics, and baseline staff requirements. | Help |
| 3. Station Specific Staffing | Station-by-station estimates of the number of core staff needed to operate one of the two basic clinic designs shown in Section 8. | Help |
| 4. Support Staff Calculations | Questions to determine the number of support staff (e.g., security) in each clinic. | Help |
| 5. Summary of Model Results | Model output, including recommended core and support staff for each clinic and the entire mass prophylaxis campaign. | Help |
| 6. Staffing Constraints | This section allows you to adjust the model for limited available staff and calculates the impact of these limitations on model outputs. | Help |
| 7. Summary of Scenarios | Modeling assumptions (including processing times/station and response scenario details) for pre-set anthrax and smallpox scenarios. | |
| 8. Clinic Flow Diagrams | Schematic patient flow plans for clinics designed for non-contagious (e.g., anthrax) and contagious (e.g., smallpox) agents. | Help |
| 9. Sample Physical Layout | This section shows a sample layout of the model contagious agent clinic on footprint of high-school basketball court. | Help |
| 10. Customizable Staffing Model | For advanced users, this section lets you alter pre-set modeling assumptions via processing time and population parameters. | |
| 11. Technical Appendix | Explanation of the scientific foundation for the operations research concepts and mathematical assumptions underlying this model. |