Network position and health care worker infections
Authored by Troy Tassier, Philip Polgreen, Alberto Segre
Date Published: 2017
DOI: 10.1007/s11403-015-0166-4
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United States National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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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.
Tags
Social networks
Dynamics
Mortality
Infectious disease
Influenza
Vaccination
Diseases
Vaccine subsidies
Economic
epidemiology