Modelling pathogen spread in a healthcare network: Indirect patient movements.

Inter-hospital patient transfers (direct transfers) between healthcare facilities have been shown to contribute to the spread of pathogens in a healthcare network. However, the impact of indirect transfers (patients re-admitted from the community to the same or different hospital) is not well studie...

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Main Authors: Monika J Piotrowska, Konrad Sakowski, André Karch, Hannan Tahir, Johannes Horn, Mirjam E Kretzschmar, Rafael T Mikolajczyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008442