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cord-001071-bjx5td52	Vanhems, Philippe	Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors	2013-09-11		.txt	text/plain	5041	223	45	The number and duration of contacts varied between mornings, afternoons and nights, and contact matrices describing the mixing patterns between HCW and patients were built for each time period. The collected data can provide information on important aspects that impact the spreading patterns of infectious diseases, such as the strong heterogeneity of contact numbers and durations across individuals, the variability in the number of contacts during a day, and the fraction of repeated contacts across days. In particular, wearable sensors based on active Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology have been used to measure face-to-face proximity relations between individuals with a high spatio-temporal resolution in various contexts [17] that include social gatherings [18, 19] , schools [20, 21] and hospitals [22, 23] . In this paper we report on the use of wearable proximity sensors [17] to measure the numbers and durations of contacts between individuals in an acute care geriatric unit of a university hospital.	./cache/cord-001071-bjx5td52.txt	./txt/cord-001071-bjx5td52.txt