Table 3 Detection for the different priority lists when all hospitals of that particular list are included as sentinel hospitals. Gold standard hospitals needed indicates the number of hospitals that would be needed using the gold standard algorithm to detect an outbreak in the same time as using the priority list. Gold standard detection time indicates the detection time needed with the greedy algorithm if the same number of hospitals would be included from the priority list based on the Gold standard algorithm

From: Efficient national surveillance for health-care-associated infections