Title |
Close Encounters in a Pediatric Ward: Measuring Face-to-Face Proximity and Mixing Patterns with Wearable Sensors
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2011
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0017144 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Lorenzo Isella, Mariateresa Romano, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Vittoria Colizza, Wouter Van den Broeck, Francesco Gesualdo, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Lucilla Ravà, Caterina Rizzo, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi |
Abstract |
Nosocomial infections place a substantial burden on health care systems and represent one of the major issues in current public health, requiring notable efforts for its prevention. Understanding the dynamics of infection transmission in a hospital setting is essential for tailoring interventions and predicting the spread among individuals. Mathematical models need to be informed with accurate data on contacts among individuals. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 3 | 20% |
Italy | 2 | 13% |
France | 1 | 7% |
Spain | 1 | 7% |
Ireland | 1 | 7% |
Brazil | 1 | 7% |
Switzerland | 1 | 7% |
Unknown | 5 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 13 | 87% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 186 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Italy | 5 | 3% |
United States | 4 | 2% |
France | 3 | 2% |
United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
Germany | 2 | 1% |
Spain | 2 | 1% |
Belgium | 1 | <1% |
Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
Portugal | 1 | <1% |
Other | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 163 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 43 | 23% |
Researcher | 32 | 17% |
Student > Master | 23 | 12% |
Student > Bachelor | 16 | 9% |
Other | 11 | 6% |
Other | 39 | 21% |
Unknown | 22 | 12% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 19% |
Computer Science | 27 | 15% |
Physics and Astronomy | 18 | 10% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 8% |
Engineering | 14 | 8% |
Other | 47 | 25% |
Unknown | 29 | 16% |