Fig. 5

The estimated impact of a reduction on contact rates between healthcare workers and patients on the acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The top panel depicts the rate of MRSA acquisition per 1000 patient-days emerging of 5000 simulations of randomly drawn reductions in contact rate ranging from 0% to 50%, assuming this reduction directly results in less contact with the patient. The lower panel depicts the same outcome, assuming this reduction results in the same amount of care, but with more tasks being compressed into a single visit. Light grey circles are the result of a single simulation run, while the black line is the predicted fit of a Poisson regression model for both scenarios