Relevance of intra-hospital patient movements for the spread of healthcare-associated infections within hospitals - a mathematical modeling study

• Hannan Tahir ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: h.tahir@umcutrecht.nl

  Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences & Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3047-9174

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• Luis Eduardo López-Cortés,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9347-527X

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• Axel Kola,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité- University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Dafna Yahav,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-9791

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• André Karch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Hanjue Xia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometry, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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• Johannes Horn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometry, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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• Konrad Sakowski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1511-074X

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• Monika J. Piotrowska,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0156-8290

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• Leonard Leibovici,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine E; Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-Tiqva, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9907-344X

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• Rafael T. Mikolajczyk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometry, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1271-7204

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• Mirjam E. Kretzschmar

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences & Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4394-7697

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