Modelling pathogen spread in a healthcare network: Indirect patient movements
Fig 4
Hospital and community sizes analysis.
(a) Histogram of estimated hospital sizes, defined as average numbers of patients in the hospitals within the period 2008–2015, calculated for each healthcare facility separately (164 units)—given the fact that AOK Lower Saxony covers 30.52% of the population in Lower Saxony, the number of beds has to be multiplied by about 3 to get the actual sizes; (b) histogram of estimated community sizes, defined as average numbers of patients in the given community within the period 2008-2015, calculated for each healthcare facility separately, as above the populations have to be multiplied; (c) dependence of community-node sizes on corresponding healthcare facilities (164 units).