build_network: Creates a synthetic hospital ward network

In MESuRS-Lab/mwss: Stochastic simulations of infectious disease spread in healthcare systems structured as a networked metapopulation

Creates a synthetic hospital ward network

Description

This function creates a synthetic hospital ward network with additional information on the population size, visitors etc. You can use this script to generate different input data to be used as examples of "network structures".

Usage

build_network(
  n_buildings = 5,
  n_wards = c(3, 4, 5, 8, 9),
  total_patients = 500,
  total_HCW = 900,
  minLS = 14,
  maxLS = 28,
  within_clust_lev = 0.8,
  between_clust_lev = 0.1,
  clust_ratio_inout = 0.8,
  silent = F
)

Arguments

n_buildings	integer. number of buildings (="clusters")
n_wards	numerical vector. Vector of length (n_buildings) with number of wards for each building
total_patients	integer. Total number of patients in the hospital
total_HCW	integer. Total number of HCW in the hospital
minLS	integer. Minimal number of days for random length of stay
maxLS	integer. Maximal number of days for random length of stay
within_clust_lev	numeric. Probability of creating links between wards of the same building
between_clust_lev	numeric. Probability of creating links between wards of different building
clust_ratio_inout	numeric. Ratio of intra-building clustering (relative to inter-building clustering)
silent	logical. Print plot if TRUE

Value

A list of 9 elements: 1. ward_names, 2. pop_size_P, 3. pop_size_H, nVisits, 5. LS (length of stay), 6. Hplanning, 7. matContact, 8. IMMstate, 9. EPIstate

MESuRS-Lab/mwss documentation built on Sept. 12, 2023, 12:08 a.m.