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 2017-05, Vol.45 (5), p.542-543
Main Authors: Barker, Anna K., BA, Codella, James, PhD, Ewers, Tola, MS, PhD, Dundon, Adam, MS, Alagoz, Oguzhan, PhD, Safdar, Nasia, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communicable Diseases - diagnosis
Communicable Diseases - therapy
Contact isolation
Cross Infection - prevention & control
Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control
Health care workers
Human factors
Humans
Infection Control
Infectious Disease
Nosocomial infections
Nurses
Patient Isolation - methods
Physicians
Prospective Studies
Time Factors
Workflow
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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.
ISSN:0196-6553
1527-3296
DOI:10.1016/j.ajic.2017.01.026