These data can help predict staff availability and provide information for pandemic preparedness planning

Andreasen

Bansal

Beutels

Brankston

Edmunds

Eichner

Ferguson

Gani

Germann

Glaser

Glass

Helen Bernard

Kawana

Longini

Manfred Wildner

Mikolajczyk

Mirjam Kretzschmar

Mossong

Mounier-Jack

Nguyen-Van-Tam

Rafael T. Mikolajczyk

Richela Fischer

Straetemans

Tellier

van den Dool

Wallinga

Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Nurses’ Contacts and Potential for Infectious Disease Transmission

Nurses' contacts with potentially infectious persons probably place them at higher risk than the general population for infectious diseases. During an influenza pandemic, illness among nurses might result in staff shortage. We aimed to show the value of individual data from the healthcare sector for mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission. Using a paper diary approach, we compared nurses' daily contacts (2-way conversation with >2 words or skin-to-skin contact) with those of matched controls from a representative population survey. Nurses (n = 129) reported a median of 40 contacts (85% work related), and controls (n = 129) reported 12 contacts (33% work related). For nurses, 51% of work-related contacts were with patients (74% involving skin-to-skin contact, and 63% laste

Bernard, Helen

Fischer, Richela

Mikolajczyk, Rafael T.

Kretzschmar, Mirjam

Wildner, Manfred

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Nurses' contacts and potential for infectious disease transmission

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Nurses’ contacts with potentially infectious persons probably place them at higher risk than the general population for infectious diseases. During an influenza pandemic, illness among nurses might result in staff shortage. We aimed to show the value of individual data from the healthcare sector for mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission. Using a paper diary approach, we compared nurses’ daily contacts (2-way conversation with >2 words or skin-to-skin contact) with those of matched controls from a representative population survey. Nurses (n = 129) reported a median of 40 contacts (85% work related), and controls (n = 129) reported 12 contacts (33% work related). For nurses, 51% of work-related contacts were with patients (74% involving skin-to-skin contact, and 63% lasted <15 minutes); 40% were with staff members (29% and 36%, respectively). Our data, used with simulation models, can help predict staff availability and provide information for pandemic preparedness planning

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