Relevance of intra-hospital patient movements for the spread of healthcare-associated infections within hospitals - a mathematical modeling study
Fig 5
(A) Distribution of daily departments’ prevalence of MDR-E for a period of 395 days for scenario 1 where a single colonized patient was admitted to the ICU on day 30. (B) Distribution of steady state daily departments’ prevalence of MDR-E (from 200 days onwards) for scenario 2, 3 & 4 which include 1%, 5% and 15% daily arrivals of colonized patients respectively from day 30 onwards. Yellow lines represent the mean prevalence per department for every scenario. For all results shown in Fig 5, transmission parameter β = 0.25 was used for all departments. Departments are ordered by size with internal medicine department being the largest department. Results shown in Fig 5 are based on 50 simulations for every scenario.