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
Recommendat...
...tors should perform hand hygiene prior to enter...
...r parents/guardians/visitors with extende...
...ituations, in which patients acquire...
...situations in which heightened horizontal tr...
...resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vanc...
...ituations with MRSA and VRE we recommend no...
...tors to patients with MRSA or VRE will b...
...: This might be the case for visitors of patien...
...stant Gram-negative Organis...
...lization of contact precautions should be cons...
...ric Pathogens
...r visitors of patients infected with ente...
...et Precautions...
...visitors to rooms of patients on drop...
...borne Precaution...
...sitors to patients on airborne precautions we re...