[00944] Modelling of healthcare-acquired infection spread in regional healthcare systems
Session Time & Room : 5B (Aug.25, 10:40-12:20) @A201
Type : Contributed Talk
Abstract : A network-compartmental model for simulation of healthcare-associated infection spread in healthcare systems is presented. The model accounts for transmission of the pathogen by inter-hospital patient transfers and colonized patients' readmission. Estimates for basic reproduction number per hospital-community pairs are calculated for multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae for selected German regions. Inter-hospital transfer network is created from anonymized German health-insurance datasets. By numerical simulations, we examine interventions to reduce spread of the pathogen within the healthcare network.
Konrad Sakowski (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw)
Monika Joanna Piotrowska (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw)
Agata Lonc (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw)
Johannes Horn (Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale))
Rafael Mikolajczyk (Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale))
André Karch (Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster)
Paweł Brachaczek (University of Warsaw)
Mirjam Kretzschmar (University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University)
