| Article ID: | iaor20021282 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 35 |
| End Page Number: | 58 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Rickmeier Gillian L., McClellan Gene E., Anno George A. |
| Keywords: | biology |
Casualty estimation is an important tool for military and medical planning. The Knowledge Acquisition Matrix Instrument (KAMI) analyzes the effects of bioagent-induced diseases that are wartime or terrorist threats but for which only limited human response data are available. The article uses the KAMI technique to supplement available data with input from subject matter experts to predict time-phased casualty estimates resulting from anthrax, botulism, pneumonic plague and Venezuelan equine encephalitis. Ms. Rickmeier, Dr. McClellan, and Mr. Anno created KAMI to develop casualty tables for Allied Medical Publication 8, a medical planning guide. This work was awarded the best presentation of Working Group 23 at the annual MORS Symposium in 1999.