Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Used to Identify Infectious Disease Modeling Guidelines

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

1. Guidelines focusing on modeling infectious disease in general 2. Guidelines focusing on modeling specific infectious diseases (such as COVID-19, influenza, tuberculosis), including diseases transmitted to humans by nonhumans 3. Guidelines focusing on the epidemiology or the direct and/or indirect health or nonhealth impact of infectious diseases at the level of individuals, population, and/or health or nonhealth systems 4. Guidelines should include recommendations or strategies to develop mathematical or statistical models of infectious diseases

1. Animal models or animal version of human pathogen 2. Qualitative and behavioral studies 3. In vitro, pharmacodynamic or pharmacokinetic studies 4. Focus on chronic diseases whose main cause is not infectious, e.g., diabetes modeling guidelines 5. Guidelines on screening, clinical management, or population interventions for infectious diseases only, without focus on modeling 6. Non-English publication language