Isolation Precautions for Visitors
Publication Date: April 10, 2015
Key Points
Key Points
Given the limited scientific evidence on the subject, studies designed to evaluate the role of visitors in the horizontal transmission of pathogens should be performed.
Until the appropriate studies are performed, the use of isolation precautions among visitors should be guided by the specific pathogen, the underlying infectious condition, and the endemicity of the organism in both the hospital and the surrounding community.
These recommendations should be adapted to individual hospital needs and patient populations. Additionally, hospitals should consider writing policies regarding visitors only when they can be realistically enforced and regularly evaluated for compliance. Resources should be allocated to hospital infection pr
Until the appropriate studies are performed, the use of isolation precautions among visitors should be guided by the specific pathogen, the underlying infectious condition, and the endemicity of the organism in both the hospital and the surrounding community.
These recommendations should be adapted to individual hospital needs and patient populations. Additionally, hospitals should consider writing policies regarding visitors only when they can be realistically enforced and regularly evaluated for compliance. Resources should be allocated to hospital infection pr
Recommendations
...mendations...
...visitors should perform hand hygiene...
...dians/visitors with extended stay in a patient...
...tions, in which patients acquire new transmissib...
...ons in which heightened horizontal tran...
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)...
...endemic situations with MRSA and VRE w...
...isitors to patients with MRSA or VRE will be inter...
...te: This might be the case for visito...
...ug-resistant Gram-negative Organisms...
...ontact precautions should be considered f...
...nteric Patho...
...itors of patients infected with enteric pa...
Droplet Precau...
...tors to rooms of patients on droplet preca...
...orne Precautio...
...ors to patients on airborne precautions we rec...