Measuring distance through dense weighted networks: The case of hospital-associated pathogens.

ABSTRACT: Hospital networks, formed by patients visiting multiple hospitals, affect the spread of hospital-associated infections, resulting in differences in risks for hospitals depending on their network position. These networks are increasingly used to inform strategies to prevent and control the spread of hospital-associated pathogens. However, many studies only consider patients that are received directly from the initial hospital, without considering the effect of indirect trajectories through the network. We determine the optimal way to measure the distance between hospitals within the network, by reconstructing the English hospital network based on shared patients in 2014-2015, and simulating the spread of a hospital-associated pathogen between hospitals, taking into consideration that each i

SUBMITTER: Donker T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5542422 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature