Authors
Citation
Kb. Kirkland et Jm. Weinstein, Adverse effects of contact isolation, LANCET, 354(9185), 1999, pp. 1177-1178
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
LANCET
ISSN journal
01406736
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Volume
354
Issue
9185
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1177 - 1178
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-6736(19991002)354:9185<1177:AEOCI>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Healthcare workers are half as likely to enter the rooms of patients in con
tact isolation, but are more likely to wash their hands after caring for th
em than after caring for patients not in isolation.