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Appendix B: Committee's Response to the Use Case Scenarios Report
Pages 93-98

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From page 93...
... The addition of to save progress consistently the print option helps provide throughout the software. a log of the user preferences.
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... subpopulation data the reader that the results pertain only to the pertain to the entire population. specific disease and As with the previous issue, vaccine candidates under this comment emerged from consideration.
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From page 95...
... Indeed, the committee envisions that the Specify steps will likely be undertaken by a technical support person and then a decision maker will enter the scene to participate in the Evaluate phase. Although the current structure does impose a data entry burden on users who can anticipate in advance the precise set of attributes that will enter the model, modifying the structure would create a programming task that exceeds the committee's resources at this point. Thus, the committee chose to leave this issue for consideration in future versions of the program.
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... , the Phase II committee chose the current Yes/No description with the belief that the nature and extent of complications could not be known with any meaningful certainty. Thus, the current version retains the Yes/No descriptor.
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... The future versions of SMART Vaccines could be designed to include more refined age brackets for disease burden and vaccine program implementation, more refined entry of vaccine-related complications, and the granularity of L ­ ikert scales to describe attributes.
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