Journal article
Network position and health care worker infections
Journal of economic interaction and coordination, Vol.12(2), pp.277-307
09/07/2015
DOI: 10.1007/s11403-015-0166-4
PMCID: PMC7111609
PMID: 32288841
Abstract
We use a newly collected data set coupled with an agent-based model to study the spread of infectious disease in hospitals. We estimate the average and marginal infections created by various worker groups in a hospital as a function of their network position in order to identify groups most crucial in a hospital-based epidemic. Surprisingly, we find that many groups with primary patient care responsibilities play a small role in spreading an infectious disease within our hospital data set. We also demonstrate that the effect of different network positions can be as important as the effect of different transmission rates for some categories of workers.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Network position and health care worker infections
- Creators
- Troy Tassier - Fordham UniversityPhilip Polgreen - University of IowaAlberto Segre - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of economic interaction and coordination, Vol.12(2), pp.277-307
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11403-015-0166-4
- PMID
- 32288841
- PMCID
- PMC7111609
- NLM abbreviation
- J Econ Interact Coord
- ISSN
- 1860-711X
- eISSN
- 1860-7128
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Grant note
- R21 AI081164; K01 AI075089 / ;
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/07/2015
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Nursing; Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center; Injury Prevention Research Center; Computer Science; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984259495202771
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