Past studies have linked contact precautions with adverse health events like patients developing delirium, increased risk of falls, or pressure ulcers. Now we have a new study on the effects of contract precautions on patient care that poses something of…
Prior to 2012, only 2 cases of hantavirus infection had been identified in visitors to California’s Yosemite National Park – one in 2000 and another in 2010. Both infections were acquired in the Tuolomne Meadows area, miles distant from the…
They come only to bring love and support, flowers and magazines. Yet visitors no doubt serve as vectors for infectious pathogens already in the hospital or unwisely walk in with some illness of their own. By the same token, given…