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

Keywords

Enterovirus
Healthcare-associated infection
Respiratory virus
Rhinovirus
Visitors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Infectious Diseases

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Forkpa, Hawa ; Rupp, Angela H. ; Shulman, Stanford T. ; Patel, Sameer J. ; Gray, Elizabeth L. ; Zheng, Xiaotian ; Bovee, Maria ; Kociolek, Larry K. / Association between children's hospital visitor restrictions and healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections : A quasi-experimental study. In: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2020 ; Vol. 9, No. 2. pp. 240-243.

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Association between children's hospital visitor restrictions and healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections : A quasi-experimental study. / Forkpa, Hawa; Rupp, Angela H.; Shulman, Stanford T.; Patel, Sameer J.; Gray, Elizabeth L.; Zheng, Xiaotian; Bovee, Maria; Kociolek, Larry K.

In: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2020, p. 240-243.

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