Association between children's hospital visitor restrictions and healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections: A quasi-experimental study

Hawa Forkpa; Angela H. Rupp; Stanford T. Shulman; Sameer J. Patel; Elizabeth L. Gray; Xiaotian Zheng; Maria Bovee; Larry K. Kociolek

doi:10.1093/JPIDS/PIZ023

Association between children's hospital visitor restrictions and healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections: A quasi-experimental study

Hawa Forkpa, Angela H. Rupp, Stanford T. Shulman, Sameer J. Patel, Elizabeth L. Gray, Xiaotian Zheng, Maria Bovee, Larry K. Kociolek^*

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Abstract

We investigated the effect of annual winter visitor restrictions on hospital respiratory virus transmission. The healthcare-associated (HA) viral respiratory infection (VRI) transmission index (number of HA VRIs per 100 inpatient community-associated VRIs) was 59% lower during the months in which visitor restrictions were implemented. These data prompt consideration for instituting year-round visitor restrictions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	240-243
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/JPIDS/PIZ023
State	Published - 2020

Funding

Financial support. L. K. K. is supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (grant K23 AI123525). Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (grant UL1TR001422).

Keywords

Enterovirus
Healthcare-associated infection
Respiratory virus
Rhinovirus
Visitors

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General Medicine

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Association between children's hospital visitor restrictions and healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections: A quasi-experimental study

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