Selected article for: "cohort study and retrospective cohort study"

Author: Lin Huang, G. Khai; Stewardson, Andrew J.; Lindsay Grayson, M.
Title: Back to basics: hand hygiene and isolation
  • Document date: 2014_7_2
  • ID: q4nzhbvt_41
    Snippet: The potential adverse outcomes of contact precautions have been recently reviewed [96] . In addition, a single-centre retrospective cohort study by Karki et al. [97] compared the incidence rate of documented adverse events in patients before and after initiation of contact precautions for VRE. They found that the overall rate of adverse events was not significantly different, but that there was an increase in medication administration errors and .....
    Document: The potential adverse outcomes of contact precautions have been recently reviewed [96] . In addition, a single-centre retrospective cohort study by Karki et al. [97] compared the incidence rate of documented adverse events in patients before and after initiation of contact precautions for VRE. They found that the overall rate of adverse events was not significantly different, but that there was an increase in medication administration errors and nonpressure-related injuries. The same group also observed that the waiting time for patients to obtain a CT scan, whereas under contact precautions for VRE colonization, was 46% longer than those who were not isolated [98] .

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