hc: Hospital encounter network data

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

Records of contacts among patients and various types of health care workers in the geriatric unit of a hospital in Lyon, France, in 2010, from 1pm on Monday, December 6 to 2pm on Friday, December 10. Each of the 75 people in this study consented to wear RFID sensors on small identification badges during this period, which made it possible to record when any two of them were in face-to-face contact with each other (i.e., within 1-1.5 m of each other) during a 20-second interval of time.

Usage

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Format

A data frame, where each row is an interaction. It has five columns:

Status codes: administrative staff (ADM), medical doctor (MED), paramedical staff, such as nurses or nurses' aides (NUR), and patients (PAT).

Source

See the reference below. Please cite the it if you use this dataset in your work.

References

P. Vanhems, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, J.-F. Pinton, N. Khanafer, C. Regis, B.-a. Kim, B. Comte, N. Voirin: Estimating potential infection transmission routes in hospital wards using wearable proximity sensors. PloS One 8(9), e73970 306 (2013).


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