Relevance of intra-hospital patient movements for the spread of healthcare-associated infections within hospitals - a mathematical modeling study
Fig 6
Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient results between averaged network statistics from 50 simulations and departments’ prevalence of MDR-E.
(A) Correlation between departments’ degree and departments’ mean prevalence. (B) Correlation between departments’ weighted degree and departments’ mean prevalence. In all scenarios, different transmission parameter β values were tested. For Scenario 1, mean prevalence over a period of 395 days was used. For Scenario 2–4, steady state mean prevalence from 200 days onwards was used. Joining datapoints with lines was only done to improve readability but it does not show a functional relationship as x-axis is a categorical axis. For both A and B, errorbars represent 95% confidence intervals.