| Literature DB >> 28302435 |
Anna K Barker1, James Codella2, Tola Ewers3, Adam Dundon4, Oguzhan Alagoz5, Nasia Safdar6.
Abstract
Contact precautions are complex behavioral interventions. To better understand barriers to compliance, we conducted a prospective study that compared the time burden for health care workers caring for contact precautions patients versus other patients. We found that nurses spent significantly more time in the rooms of contact precautions patients. There was no significant change in physician timing. Future studies need to evaluate workflow changes so that barriers to contact precaution implementation can be fully understood and addressed. Published by Elsevier Inc.Entities:
Keywords: Contact isolation; Health care workers; Human factors; Nosocomial infections; Workflow
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28302435 PMCID: PMC6215360 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.01.026
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Infect Control ISSN: 0196-6553 Impact factor: 2.918