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@article{Grant:2024:10.1017/ice.2024.97,
author = {Grant, R and Rubin, M and Abbas, M and Pittet, D and Srinivasan, A and Jernigan, JA and Bell, M and Samore, M and Harbarth, S and Slayton, RB and 2023, IPC Think Tank participants},
doi = {10.1017/ice.2024.97},
journal = {Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol},
pages = {1--6},
title = {Expanding the use of mathematical modeling in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention and control.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2024.97},
year = {2024}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB - During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, mathematical modeling has been widely used to understand epidemiological burden, trends, and transmission dynamics, to facilitate policy decisions, and, to a lesser extent, to evaluate infection prevention and control (IPC) measures. This review highlights the added value of using conventional epidemiology and modeling approaches to address the complexity of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antimicrobial resistance. It demonstrates how epidemiological surveillance data and modeling can be used to infer transmission dynamics in healthcare settings and to forecast healthcare impact, how modeling can be used to improve the validity of interpretation of epidemiological surveillance data, how modeling can be used to estimate the impact of IPC interventions, and how modeling can be used to guide IPC and antimicrobial treatment and stewardship decision-making. There are several priority areas for expanding the use of modeling in healthcare epidemiology and IPC. Importantly, modeling should be viewed as complementary to conventional healthcare epidemiological approaches, and this requires collaboration and active coordination between IPC, healthcare epidemiology, and mathematical modeling groups.
AU - Grant,R
AU - Rubin,M
AU - Abbas,M
AU - Pittet,D
AU - Srinivasan,A
AU - Jernigan,JA
AU - Bell,M
AU - Samore,M
AU - Harbarth,S
AU - Slayton,RB
AU - 2023,IPC Think Tank participants
DO - 10.1017/ice.2024.97
EP - 6
PY - 2024///
SP - 1
TI - Expanding the use of mathematical modeling in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention and control.
T2 - Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2024.97
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39228083
ER -

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