Infection Control Today - Isolation Precautions

Contact Precautions Shown to Modify Healthcare Workers' Care Delivery

The prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) can help reduce patient morbidity and mortality, but a common prevention effort for patients with hard to treat infections known as contact precautions, can have positive and negative impacts on patient ...More

December 11, 2012

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Daily Disinfection of Isolation Rooms Reduces Contamination of Healthcare Workers' Hands

New research demonstrates that daily cleaning of high-touch surfaces in isolation rooms of patients with Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) significantly reduces the rate of the pathogens on the hands of healthcare ...More

September 13, 2012

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Hand Hygiene

Hospitals Encouraged to Examine Their Approach to Isolation

In a concise communication published in the May 2012 issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Joan Vinski, MSN, RN, CIC, Mary Bertin, BSN, RN, CIC, Zhiyuan Sun, MS, Steven M. Gordon, MD, Daniel Bokar, James Merlino, MD, and Thomas G. Fraser, MD, report on their ...More

July 17, 2012

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Cross-Transmission Prevention Pays Dividends in MRSA Reduction

In France, the proportion of MRSA has been more than 25 percent since 2000. Prevention of hospital-acquired (HA) MRSA spread is based on isolation precautions and antibiotic stewardship. At one institution, before 2000, the infection disease and the infection control teams ...More

May 28, 2012

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ED Visits Result in Infections for Elderly LTC Residents

Elderly patients who have visited an emergency department (ED) are three times more likely to develop respiratory or gastrointestinal infections in the week following their return to a long-term care facility, such as a Centre d'Hébergement de Soins de Longue Durée (CHLSD). ...More

January 23, 2012

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Study Finds Patient Isolation Associated With Hospital Delirium

A new study finds that patients who are moved into isolation during a hospital stay are nearly twice as likely to develop delirium, a potentially dangerous change in mental status that often affects hospital patients. Patients who began their stay in isolation were not at ...More

December 12, 2011

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Researchers Examine Isolation's Effect on MRSA Transmission

Many studies have examined methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control measures, but few have been planned prospective single intervention studies in the endemic setting. Researchers from the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service of Royal Melbourne Hospital ...More

July 6, 2011

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A Liberal Isolation Policy and MRSA Surveillance

In a presentation at the International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC) held in Geneva, Switzerland. from June 29 through July 2, 2011, researchers from the hygiene team of the Rehabilitation Centre Inkendaal in Vlezenbeek, Belgium reported that ...More

July 5, 2011

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Duct Tape Strategy Improves Infection Prevention

A simple roll of duct tape has proven to be an inexpensive solution to the costly and time-consuming problem of communicating with hospital patients who are isolated with dangerous infections. A 504-bed Midwestern health system saved up to 2,700 hours and $110,000 a year by ...More

June 27, 2011

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Screening, Isolation Can Help Curb MRSA

Screening and isolation are central components of hospital methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control policies, but their prevention of patient-to-patient spread depends on minimizing undetected and unisolated MRSA-positive patient days. Estimating these ...More

October 12, 2010

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