igraphdata (version 1.0.1)

rfid: Hospital encounter network data

Description

Records of contacts among patients and various types of health care workers in the geriatric unit of a hospital in Lyon, France, in 2010, from 1pm on Monday, December 6 to 2pm on Friday, December 10. Each of the 75 people in this study consented to wear RFID sensors on small identification badges during this period, which made it possible to record when any two of them were in face-to-face contact with each other (i.e., within 1-1.5 m of each other) during a 20-second interval of time.

Usage

rfid

Arguments

Format

An igraph graph with graph attributes ‘name’ and ‘Citation’, vertex attribute ‘Status’ and edge attribute ‘Time’. ‘Status’ is the status of the person. Status codes: administrative staff (ADM), medical doctor (MED), paramedical staff, such as nurses or nurses' aides (NUR), and patients (PAT). ‘Time’ is the time of the encounter, it is the second when the 20 second encounter terminated.

Source

See the reference below. Please cite it if you use this dataset in your work.

References

P. Vanhems, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, J.-F. Pinton, N. Khanafer, C. Regis, B.-a. Kim, B. Comte, N. Voirin: Estimating potential infection transmission routes in hospital wards using wearable proximity sensors. PloS One 8(9), e73970 306 (2013).