Using spectral characterization to identify healthcare-associated infection (HAI) patients for clinical contact precaution.

ABSTRACT: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major problem in hospital infection control. Although HAIs can be suppressed using contact precautions, such precautions are expensive, and we can only apply them to a small fraction of patients (i.e., a limited budget). In this work, we focus on two clinical problems arising from the limited budget: (a) choosing the best patients to be placed under precaution given a limited budget to minimize the spread (the isolation problem), and (b) choosing the best patients to release when limited budget requires some of the patients to be cleared from precaution (the clearance problem). A critical challenge in addressing them is that HAIs have multiple transmission pathways such that locations can also accumulate 'load' and spread the disease. One of th

SUBMITTER: Cui J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10533902 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature