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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Mar 2007
Compliance with isolation precautions at a university hospital.
- David J Weber, Emily E Sickbert-Bennett, Vickie M Brown, Rebecca H Brooks, Irene P Kittrell, Brenda J Featherstone, Tina L Adams, and William A Rutala.
- Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care System, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. dweber@unch.unc.edu
- Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Mar 1;28(3):358-61.
AbstractCompliance with isolation precautions recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was evaluated in 3 hospital-wide observational surveys. The compliance rate, by type of isolation, was as follows: droplet transmission, 100% (4 observations); airborne transmission, 61.5% (13 observations); contact isolation, 73.3% (165 observations); and protective isolation, 73.6% (72 observations). As with hand hygiene, there is suboptimal compliance with recommended isolation precautions.
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