Changes to physician and nurse time burdens when caring for patients under contact precautions
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 t...
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Published in | American journal of infection control Vol. 45; no. 5; pp. 542 - 543 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Elsevier Inc
01.05.2017
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Summary: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 0196-6553 1527-3296 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.01.026 |