Isolation Precautions for Visitors
Publication Date: July 1, 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
...should perform hand hygiene prior to...
...parents/guardians/visitors with extended s...
...al situations, in which patients acquire new tran...
In situations in which heightened horizontal trans...
...resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) an...
...uations with MRSA and VRE we recomme...
...itors to patients with MRSA or VRE will be i...
...ote: This might be the case for visitors of patien...
...resistant Gram-negative Organisms...
...tion of contact precautions should be consider...
...ic Pathogens...
...visitors of patients infected with enteric...
...t Precautions...
...rooms of patients on droplet precautions, we...
...rborne Precautions
...itors to patients on airborne precautions we rec...