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Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006

Dispatch

Pathogen Transmission and Clinic Scheduling

John R. Hotchkiss*Comments to Author , David G. Strike†‡, and Philip S. Crooke§
Author affiliations: *University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; †Regions Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; ‡University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; §Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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Table 1

Interparticipant transmission and intraindividual transition probabilities used in simulations*

Patient negative Caregiver negative Environment negative
Patient positive 0 PPC = 0.2 PPE = 0.2
Caregiver positive PCP = 0.2 P(hand hygiene) = 0.5 PCE = 0
Environment positive PEP = 0.2 PEC = 0.2 P(environ decont) = 0
Temporally adjacent patient positive PPP = 0 – –

*PPC, probability of transmission from patient to caregiver;
PPE, probability of transmission from patient to environment;
PCP, probability of transmission from caregiver to patient;
P(hand hygiene), probability that a contaminated caregiver will clear his or her contamination between patients;
PCE, probability of transmission from caregiver to environment;
PEP, probability of transmission from environment to patient;
PEC, probability of transmission from environment to caregiver;
P(environ decont), probability that contaminated environment will be decontaminated;
PPP, probability of transmission from patient to patient.

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CrossRef reports the first author should be "Weinstein" not "Hota" in reference 14 "Hota, 2004".

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