Spatial-Temporal Visualization Tool for Hospital Support for Infection Spread and Outbreaks

Denisse Kim, Manuel Campos, Manuel Campos, Bernardo Canovas-Segura, Jose Juarez

2024

Abstract

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a major concern today, especially when related to multidrug-resistant bacteria, as they are associated with increases in healthcare costs, prolonged length of stay, and attributable mortality. Tracking the presence of these infections requires interweaving spatial-temporal information from patients and microbiological laboratory results. However, this is normally a manual process and the big amounts of daily clinical data makes it error-prone and time-consuming. In these processes, the temporal dimension is usually taken into account, but not the topology and spatial distribution of patients within a hospital building. Interactive Information Visualization can be used to bring together information from various data sources and to make these spatial-temporal relationships understandable to the human eye. We propose a new interactive visual tool for the exploration of infection spreads within hospitals. The tool presents several connected views to help analyze the epidemic situation of a hospital over time and understand the information contained in the epidemiological indicators.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kim D., Campos M., Canovas-Segura B. and Juarez J. (2024). Spatial-Temporal Visualization Tool for Hospital Support for Infection Spread and Outbreaks. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 308-314. DOI: 10.5220/0012312600003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf24,
author={Denisse Kim and Manuel Campos and Bernardo Canovas-Segura and Jose Juarez},
title={Spatial-Temporal Visualization Tool for Hospital Support for Infection Spread and Outbreaks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2024},
pages={308-314},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012312600003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - Spatial-Temporal Visualization Tool for Hospital Support for Infection Spread and Outbreaks
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Kim D.
AU - Campos M.
AU - Canovas-Segura B.
AU - Juarez J.
PY - 2024
SP - 308
EP - 314
DO - 10.5220/0012312600003657
PB - SciTePress