Reducing C. difficile in children: An agent-based modeling approach to evaluate intervention effectiveness

Keyphrases

• Agent Types 25%
• Agent-based Modeling 100%
• Agent-based Simulation 25%
• Asymptomatic Colonization 50%
• Asymptomatic Screening 25%
• Children's Hospital 25%
• Clostridium Difficile Infection 100%
• Contact Precautions 50%
• Design Agent 25%
• Difficile 100%
• Disinfection 25%
• Effective Intervention 25%
• Environmental Disinfection 50%
• Hand Hygiene 50%
• Healthcare Workers 100%
• Highly Effective 25%
• Hospital-onset 100%
• Infection Prevention 25%
• Infection Prevention Bundle 25%
• Interhospital Transfer 50%
• Intervention Bundle 25%
• Intervention Effectiveness 100%
• Intervention Strategies 25%
• Modeling Approach 100%
• Multiple Interventions 50%
• Patient Caregivers 25%
• Patient Hand Hygiene 50%
• Patient Room 25%
• Patient Visitors 25%
• Patient-physician 25%
• Pediatric Hospital 25%
• Preventive Intervention 25%
• Sporicidal 25%
• Substantial Reduction 25%
• Terminal Cleaning 25%
• Tertiary Care 25%

Nursing and Health Professions

• Disinfection 100%
• Hand Washing 100%
• Health Care Facility 25%
• Health Care Personnel 100%
• Infection 100%
• Infection Prevention 50%
• Patient Transport 50%
• Pediatric Hospital 50%
• Tertiary Health Care 25%
• Ward 25%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Hand Hygiene 100%
• Infection 100%
• Infection Prevention 50%
• Nurse 25%
• Pediatrics 25%
• Tertiary Care 25%