Droplet precautions on site instead of single room isolation for respiratory tract infections

  • Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Aug;40(8):939-942. doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.142.
Rami Sommerstein  1 ,  Tiago Castro Lopes Azevedo  1 ,  Christina Aerschmann  1 ,  Fabienne Hobi  1 ,  Martin Egger  2 ,  Jonas Marschall  1
Affiliations
  • 1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital,University of Bern,Switzerland.
  • 2. Hospital Emmental,Langnau,Switzerland.
PMID: 31169479 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2019.142
Abstract

We introduced a pragmatic concept of on site droplet precautions instead of single room isolation for rural hospitals in a tiered network. A survey among healthcare workers revealed that this approach was considered comprehensive, safe, and acceptable. This concept could be an alternative for hospitals with few single rooms available for isolation.