Use of Contact Networks to Estimate Potential Pathogen Risk Exposure in Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Person-to-person contact is important for the transmission of health care-associated pathogens. Quantifying these contact patterns is crucial for modeling disease transmission and understanding routes of potential transmission.

Objective

To generate and analyze the mixing matrices of hospital patients based on their contacts within hospital units.

Design, setting, and participants

In this quality improvement study, mixing matrices were created using a weighted contact network of connected hospital patients, in which contact was defined as occupying the same hospital unit for 1 day. Participants included hospitalized patients at 299 hospital units in 24 hospitals in the Southeastern United States that were part of the Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach

SUBMITTER: Madhobi KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9356318 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature