Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America released guidance on how long hospital staff should use of contact precautions when caring for patients infected with multidrug resistant infections.

Medication administration errors are more likely for patients under contact precautions than for patients not under contact precautions, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Researchers estimated that contact precautions were ...

Contact precautions, including gloves, gowns, and isolated rooms, have helped stem the transmission of hospital pathogens but have also had some negative consequences, according to findings from a new ...

Baltimore, August 18, 2015--Contact precautions are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for all patients known to be infected with or carrying multidrug-resistant ...