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  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), particularly those from multidrug-resistant bacteria, pose significant healthcare challenges, increasing costs and mortality.
  • Current manual monitoring methods for HAIs are inefficient and prone to errors, often neglecting crucial spatial patient distribution and hospital topology.
  • Interactive information visualization offers a promising approach to integrate diverse data for enhanced understanding of spatial-temporal infection dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop OBViz, an interactive visual tool utilizing spatial-temporal visualization techniques for analyzing infection spread and hospital epidemic situations.
  • To define user tasks focused on spatial-temporal pathogen localization and outbreak origin identification for effective HAI control.
  • To evaluate the usability, usefulness, and interpretability of OBViz among healthcare professionals.

Main Methods:

  • Development of OBViz using Unity 3D and C#, integrating 3D hospital visualization, 2D epidemiological indicators, and tabular data.
  • Utilized a simulated dataset of hospitalized patients to model infection spread.
  • Conducted a user study with 14 healthcare personnel to assess the tool's performance and user experience.

Main Results:

  • OBViz accurately depicted patient movements and infection processes through interactivity and animations, aiding temporal understanding.
  • The tool showed strong potential for decision-making (91.43% success rate) and healthcare education.
  • While patient tracking success rate was 57.14%, users preferred OBViz's interactive spatial visualization and time control over abstract methods.

Conclusions:

  • OBViz demonstrates significant potential for enhancing hospital epidemic analysis and supporting clinical decision-making.
  • The tool's interactive spatial-temporal visualization is valuable for understanding and managing HAIs.
  • Further development could improve patient tracking accuracy, optimizing integration into clinical workflows and healthcare education.