Fig. 2

Model B: Multistate Model resulting from censoring the death cases; 0 is the “Admission” state; 1 is HI; 2 is the status of the patients who are “Discharged Alive” and information on rest of the patients are “Censored”. The constant hazard rates that can be calculated from the model, α₀₁ is the hazard rate to acquire a HI infection during the hospital stay; α₀₂ is the hazard rate to be discharged alive without the HI; and α₁₂ is the hazard rate to be discharged alive after the HI