Correction: Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors

Background: Contacts between patients, patients and health care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs represent one of the important routes of transmission of hospital-acquired infections (HAI). A detailed description and quantification of contacts in hospitals provides key information for HAIs epidemiology and for the design and validation of control measures.

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