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Table 7 Fulfilment of the TRACE elements

From: Send more data: a systematic review of mathematical models of antimicrobial resistance

Study

Problem formulation

Model description

Data evaluation

Conceptual model evaluation

Implementation verification

Model output corroboration

Suthar et al., 2014 [13]

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Nguyen et al., 2014 [14]

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Ibargüen-Mondragón et al., 2016 [15]

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

Bhagunde, Nikolaou, and Tam, 2015 [16]

Yes

Yes

No

Not completely

No

Not completely

Hellweger, 2013 [17]

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

zur Wiesch, Engelstädter, and Sebastian Bonhoeffer, 2010 [18]

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Tam et al., 2007 [19]

Yes

Yes

No

Not completely

No

Not completely

Kouyos, zur Wiesch, and Bonhoeffer, 2011 [20]

Yes

Not completely

Not completely

Not

No

Yes

  1. For a complete description of the TRACE elements see Grimm et al. [9]. The two TRACE elements model output verification and model analysis were fulfilled by all eight studies as this was a selection criterion for the comparison with the TRACE elements