PPS-class: This class is a generic container for PPS data sets.
In BHAI: Estimate the Burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections

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This class is a generic container for PPS data sets.

infections: Character vector storing names of infections in PPS
num_hai_patients: Named numeric containing patients having healthcare-associated infections.
num_survey_patients: Number of patients in point prevalence survey.
length_of_stay: Length of stay of all patients in hospitals. This is need for the prevalence to incidence conversion with the Rhame-Sudderth formula.
loi_pps: A list containing length of infections from all patients in the PPS. In PPS this is usually calculated as the time from infection onset until the date of the survey.
hospital_discharges: The number of hospital discharges.
num_hai_patients_by_stratum: A list containing for each infection the number of patients in each age and gender stratum.
num_hai_patients_by_stratum_prior: The prior weight (counts) for each infection, age and gender stratum. This is used for smooting the age and gender distribution when small numbers are observed.
mccabe_scores_distr: The observed McCabe scores (counts) for each infection, age and gender stratum from the PPS.
mccabe_by_stratum_prior: The prior weight (counts) for each infection, McCabe score, age and gender stratum. This is used for smooting the age and gender distribution when small numbers are observed.
mccabe_life_exp: Named list containing remaining life expectancies for each McCabe score (NONFATAL, ULTFATAL, RAPFATAL).
num_survey_patients_by_stratum: Number of survey patients stratified by infection, age and gender. If this parameter is provided the methodology described in Cassini et al. (2016) <doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002150> is applied.
population: Population size
country: Name of the country in which PPS was conducted
bhai_options: Options with which bhai was run. If bhai was not run yet, this is an empty list.
bhai_summary: Summary statistics of bhai. If bhai was not run yet, this is an empty list.