Association of visitation policy and health care-acquired respiratory viral infections in hospitalized children

Visitor restriction policies are meant to prevent health care-acquired viral infections; however, data on their efficacy in hospitalized children are limited. We report a 37% reduction in health care-acquired respiratory viral infections in a children's hospital following standardization of the...

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Autores principales: Washam, Matthew, Woltmann, Jon, Ankrum, Andrea, Connelly, Beverly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29056326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.09.007
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description Visitor restriction policies are meant to prevent health care-acquired viral infections; however, data on their efficacy in hospitalized children are limited. We report a 37% reduction in health care-acquired respiratory viral infections in a children's hospital following standardization of the visitation policy that limited the number of visitors during a patient's hospitalization.
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spelling pubmed-71242202020-04-08 Association of visitation policy and health care-acquired respiratory viral infections in hospitalized children Washam, Matthew Woltmann, Jon Ankrum, Andrea Connelly, Beverly Am J Infect Control Brief Report Visitor restriction policies are meant to prevent health care-acquired viral infections; however, data on their efficacy in hospitalized children are limited. We report a 37% reduction in health care-acquired respiratory viral infections in a children's hospital following standardization of the visitation policy that limited the number of visitors during a patient's hospitalization. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2018-03 2017-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7124220/ /pubmed/29056326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.09.007 Text en © 2018 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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