Table 5 Percentage reduction in the baseline median number of nosocomial colonizations and infections (given in Table 4) for each of the individual control scenarios, where the specific distributions of antibiotic-risk-level probabilities for each targeted antibiotic reduction scenario are given in Table 3

Reduction in overall antibiotics

probability-antibiotic =0.243 (by 10%)

10.04%

5.21%

probability-antibiotic =0.216 (by 20%)

19.33%

8.45%

Reduction in vhigh- and high-risk antibiotics

targeted-antib-reduction-scenario =2

7.93%

14.90%

targeted-antib-reduction-scenario =3

17.45%

23.21%

Improved terminal cleaning

prob-suff-clean =0.8

2.26%

2.10%

prob-suff-clean =1

4.13%

2.76%

Increased HCW compliance

HCW-basic-compliance =0.75

8.73%

5.47%

HCW-basic-compliance =1

14.73%

5.87%

Increased HCW compliance with CDI patients

HCW-compliance-CDI-patients =0.8

7.06%

1.99%

HCW-compliance-CDI-patients =1

55.97%

15.69%

Vaccination

probability-lack-immunity =0.05

0.70%

50.29%

probability-lack-immunity =0.01

2.46%

90.22%