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 - Apr 30 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, H., Rupp, A. H., Shulman, S. T., Patel, S. J., Gray, E. L., Zheng, X., Bovee, M., & Kociolek, L. K. (2020). Association Between Children's Hospital Visitor Restrictions and Healthcare-Associated Viral Respiratory Infections: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 9(2), 240-243. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piz023

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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