New publication and new time-resolved contact data

Published: September 14, 2013

We have just published a new paper in PLoS ONE, titled “Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors”. This paper describes the properties of the contact patterns between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.

In addition, we release the corresponding time-resolved dataset. The dataset is available here as a tab-separated list of contacts during 20-second intervals of the data collection, and also in gexf format as a supplementary information to the published paper.