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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 542-543 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | American Journal of Infection Control |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Funding/support: This work was supported by the VHA National Center for Patient Safety Center of Inquiry United States Department of Veterans Affairs and by grant number R18HS024039 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. A.K.B. was supported as a predoctoral trainee under NIH grant TL1TR000429, administered by the Clinical and Translational Science Award program funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences grant UL1TR000427.
Keywords
- Contact isolation
- Health care workers
- Human factors
- Nosocomial infections
- Workflow
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases
- Health Policy
- Epidemiology
