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ReviewInfection control and hospital epidemiology2024

Expanding the use of mathematical modeling in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention and control.

Rebecca Grant, Michael Rubin, Mohamed Abbas, Didier Pittet, Arjun Srinivasan, John A Jernigan, Michael Bell, Matthew Samore, Stephan Harbarth, Rachel B Slayton and 1 more

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Review in Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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11 authors.

Rebecca GrantInfection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control and Antimicrobial Resistance, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-8113
Michael RubinDivision of Epidemiology, University of Utah School Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Mohamed AbbasInfection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control and Antimicrobial Resistance, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Didier PittetInfection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control and Antimicrobial Resistance, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Arjun SrinivasanDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
John A JerniganDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Michael BellDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Matthew SamoreDivision of Epidemiology, University of Utah School Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Stephan HarbarthInfection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control and Antimicrobial Resistance, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Rachel B SlaytonDivision of Healthcare Quality Promotion, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4699-8040
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Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, mathematical modeling has been widely used to understand epidemiological burden, trends, and transmission dynamics, to facilitate policy decisions, and, to a lesser extent, to evaluate infection prevention and control (IPC) measures. This review highlights the added value of using conventional epidemiology and modeling approaches to address the complexity of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antimicrobial resistance. It demonstrates how epidemiological surveillance data and modeling can be used to infer transmission dynamics in healthcare settings and to forecast healthcare impact, how modeling can be used to improve the validity of interpretation of epidemiological surveillance data, how modeling can be used to estimate the impact of IPC interventions, and how modeling can be used to guide IPC and antimicrobial treatment and stewardship decision-making. There are several priority areas for expanding the use of modeling in healthcare epidemiology and IPC. Importantly, modeling should be viewed as complementary to conventional healthcare epidemiological approaches, and this requires collaboration and active coordination between IPC, healthcare epidemiology, and mathematical modeling groups.

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COVID-19Cross InfectionInfection ControlModels, TheoreticalHumansSARS-CoV-2

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PMID39228083
PMCPMC12153760

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