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Clinical and demographic patient data were extracted from the hospital EHR system, including all recorded HCW contacts with patients. Contacts by an HCW with 2 different patients within 1 hour was considered a \u201cconnection\u201d. Incident VRE acquisition was determined by positive clinical or surveillance cultures collected\u2005\u226572 hours after a negative surveillance culture.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>There were 2952 hospitalizations by 2364 patients who had\u2005\u22652 VRE surveillance swabs, 112 (4.7%) patients of which had incident nosocomial acquisitions. Patients had a median of 24 (interquartile range [IQR], 18\u201333) recorded HCW contacts per day, 9 (IQR, 5\u201316) of which, or approximately 40%, were connections that occurred\u2005&amp;lt;1 hour after another patient contact. Patients that acquired VRE had a higher average number of daily connections to VRE-positive patients (3.1 [standard deviation {SD}, 2.4] versus 2.0 [SD, 2.1]). Controlling for other risk factors, connection to a VRE-positive patient was associated with increased odds of acquiring VRE (odds ratio, 1.64; 95% confidence interval, 1.39\u20131.92).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We demonstrated that EHR data can be used to quantify the impact of HCW-mediated patient connections on transmission of VRE in the hospital. Defining incident acquisition risk of multidrug-resistant organisms through HCWs connections from EHR data in real-time may aid implementation and evaluation of interventions to contain their spread.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/ofid\/ofaa056","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,15]],"date-time":"2020-02-15T04:59:22Z","timestamp":1581742762000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["The Role of Healthcare Worker-Mediated Contact Networks in the Transmission of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1304-5289","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eili Y","family":"Klein","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA"},{"name":"Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington, District of Columbia, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katie 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