Journal of Hospital InfectionGandra S, Barysauskas CM, Mack DA, Barton B, Finberg R, Ellison RT. Impact of contact precautions on falls, pressure ulcers and transmission of MRSA and VRE in hospitalized patients.
Stopping routine contact precautions for hospital-acquired infections saved one hospital more than $600,000 a year, with no increase in infection rates.
The Western Australian (WA) experience has convincingly shown that enhanced infection control practices are able to prevent transition from a large hospital outbreak to endemicity [8]. An often-debated measure is isolation, as opposed to in situ barrier precautions. In many hospitals, isolation ...
Among the studies included in our meta-analysis only a few have used decolonization protocols preoperatively or postoperatively (13,15,21,23,29), and 4 out of 23 used contact precautions for MRSA or VRE colonized patients (14,15,19,21) (Table 1). Given the impermanence of the ...
The Journal of hospital infectionGandra S, Barysauskas CM, Mack DA, Barton B, Finberg R, Ellison RT. Impact of contact precautions on falls, pressure ulcers and transmission of MRSA and VRE in hospitalized patients. J Hosp Infect 2014;88:170-176....
Contact precautionsInfection prevention and controlOutbreakSurveillanceVancomycin resistant Enterococcus faeciumBackground:Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) are on the rise in many European hospitals. In 2018, Switzerland experienced its largest nosocomial VRE outbreak. The national center for infection ...
Hospital wide information and training programs were conducted for healthcare workers (HCW) and strict contact isolation precautions were implemented in the hospital. Results: Apart from the index case, three additional cases were detected. The recommendations of the Center for Disease Control and ...
standard precautionsVariations in the literature support the benefit of contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) infections in the hospital setting. During personal protective equipment shortages throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Discontinuing contact precautions for MRSA and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus did not lead to an increase in hospital-associated infections in a Pennsylvania hospital system, according to a study.Caitlyn StulpinInfectious Disease News
Any patient with a positive culture is put on contact precautions. Results: One year after initiation of the active surveillance policy, our institution had a 49% reduction in hospital acquired MRSA infections and 18.5% reduction in hospital acquired VRE. The estimated cost avoidance to the ...