Visual-Interactive Exploration of Pathogen Outbreaks in Hospitals

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2019

Authors

von Landesberger, Tatiana
Wunderlich, Marcel
Baumgartl, Tom
Höhn, Markus
Marschollek, Michael
Scheithauer, Simone

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Clinicians and hygienists need to identify outbreaks and transmission patterns of pathogen infections among hospital patients. Such analysis requires the combination of the microbiological laboratory results with the location and contacts among patients. Currently, this is a cumbersome manual and time-consuming task that includes reading multiple textual reports. We present a visual-interactive interface that offers a set of linked visualizations for the identification of outbreaks and patient contacts. The evaluation of our interface with clinicians and hygienists has shown a high applicability for the task and ease of use.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:eurp.20191133
,
booktitle = {EuroVis 2019 - Posters
},
editor = {Madeiras Pereira, João and Raidou, Renata Georgia
},
title = {{Visual-Interactive Exploration of Pathogen Outbreaks in Hospitals
}},
author = {von Landesberger, Tatiana and 
Wunderlich, Marcel and 
Baumgartl, Tom and 
Höhn, Markus and 
Marschollek, Michael and 
Scheithauer, Simone
},
year = {2019
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-088-8
},
DOI = {10.2312/eurp.20191133
}
}