An agent-based model to simulate the transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci according different prevention and control measures.
Stéphanie DebosckerFrançois SéveracJean GaudartCéline MénardNicolas MeyerThierry LavignePublished in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2020)
The present ABM showed that while contact precautions, geographic cohorting, and an isolation unit may represent good complements to standard precautions, they may theoretically not be necessary if HH is followed at a high level of compliance.