BHAIBYE

Overview

BHAIBYE is a teaching package that ships a small, tidy dataset and a Shiny explorer for the burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in Germany and the EU/EEA. The numbers are based on the published BHAI workflow (Burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections) and let you:

• explore per-HAI totals with bubble and bar charts,

• compare Germany vs EU/EEA rates per N people,

• view 95% uncertainty intervals (UI) for cases, deaths and DALYs.

The package is intentionally lightweight: it’s meant for coursework, demos, and quick exploration.

Installation

You can install the development version of BHAIBYE from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("ETC5523-2025/assignment-4-packages-and-shiny-apps-ruby910113")

Dataset Description and Shiny app

Check out the Examples → Getting started with BHAIBYE to learn how to use it.

And you can launch it with:

BHAIBYE::launch_app()

Sources & citation

• Article available from Eurosurveillance: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.46.1900135#html_fulltext

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome.

Inspiration of the package name

BHAIBYE is a playful mash-up of BHAI (Burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections) and the phrase “bye-bye”, cheekily inspired by “Bye Bye Bye” from ’N Sync. The idea is to “say bye” to confusion and make HAI burden numbers easier to explore and explain.