What is CompEpi?
CompEpi is a research group at the University of Iowa focused on using computational tools to model, simulate, visualize and in general understand the spread of infectious disease.
Research Group Website: [https://vinci.cs.uiowa.edu/compepi/]
More about the CS Department: [https://cs.uiowa.edu/research]
Description
This repository contains all code used in the writing of my honors thesis and supporting documents. Parameters extracted which may be of use to other modelers can be requested by email ([email protected]). When using the generative distributions or code please cite this repository.
Citation Guidance
Odole, E. (2022) eodole-CompEpi [filename.py]. https://github.com/eodole/CompEpi/filepath
Abstract
Every year approximately two million people in America are affected by healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), with nearly 75,000 of those infections resulting in death. The treatment of HAIs adds nearly $500 million to US healthcare costs per year. Despite good hand hygiene being the most effective preventive measure, compliance among HCWs still remains low. While there are possible alternative interventions to reduce HAIs—e.g. alternative patient room assignment strategies, changes to hospital infrastructure, vaccination mandates, increased personal protective equipment—implementing them is disruptive and expensive. Therefor our research instead aims to provide a simulation environment that will allow researchers to compare the effectiveness of such interventions in simulation before implementation in the clinical setting.
Supporting Documents
- Honors Thesis
- Job Type Encoding Schema
- Facility Groups