Healio

Pediatric hospitals discontinue contact precautions, see no increase in MRSA

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Discontinuing contact precautions at three pediatric ...
EurekAlert!

Use of contact precautions should be customized based on local needs and resources

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 ...
Science Daily

Use of contact precautions to prevent spread of mrsa and vre in hospitalized patients should be customized based on local needs and resources

A group of epidemiologists and infection prevention specialists reviewed current practice and existing literature on the use of contact precautions for MRSA and VRE to build a framework for ...
Nature

Using spectral characterization to identify healthcare-associated infection (HAI) patients for clinical contact precaution

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major problem in hospital infection control. Although HAIs can be suppressed using contact precautions, such precautions are expensive, and we can only ...