Baltimore, August 18, 2015--Contact precautions are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for all patients known to be infected with or carrying multidrug-resistant ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Hospital patients on contact precautions experienced ...

Patients under contact precautions perceived more problems with their care than other patients, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Contact precautions are a set of ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore conducted a study to determine weather using contact precautions on hospital patients is linked to patient adverse events. The ...

CHICAGO (December 11, 2012) – The prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) can help reduce patient morbidity and mortality, but a common prevention effort for patients with ...

Contact precautions, including gloves, gowns, and isolated rooms, have helped stem the transmission of hospital pathogens but have also had some negative consequences, according to findings from a new ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Discontinuing contact precautions at three pediatric ...

Healthcare workers’ hand hygiene compliance was higher when patients were under contact precautions — measures taken to reduce the spread of infection — compared with the hospital population overall, ...

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

Background. There have been no randomized controlled trials comparing active and passive screening for documenting clearance of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We ...

Although contact precautions are necessary in some circumstances, some infection prevention specialists and healthcare providers believe there are limitations to the contact precautions approach and ...

Hannah R. Day PhD, Eli N. Perencevich MD MS, Anthony D. Harris MD MPH, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini PhD, Seth S. Himelhoch MD MPH, Clayton H. Brown PhD, Emily Dotter PharmD and Daniel J. Morgan MD Objective.