Documentation of Contact Precautions in an Electronic Health Record

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• Alternative Title:
  J Nurs Care Qual
• Personal Author:
  Cohen, Bevin ; Clock, Sarah A. ; Larson, Elaine ; Behta, Maryam ; Ross, Barbara ; Saddul, Reonel ; Vawdrey, David K.
• Description:
  Contact precautions are implemented to reduce transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms but may also increase hospital costs and patient complications. The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of documentation of contact precautions (provider orders and nursing flowsheet documentation) in an electronic health record. Orders and nursing documentation were simultaneously present for only 42.3% of patient rooms with contact precaution signs, and 17.8% of rooms with signs had neither orders nor nursing documentation.
• Subjects:
  Article Contact Precautions Cross Infection Documentation Drug Resistance, Multiple Electronic Health Record Electronic Health Records Humans Infection Control Isolation Precautions Multidrug-resistant Organisms Nursing Documentation Nursing Records

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• Source:
  J Nurs Care Qual. 2011; 26(3):252-259
• Pubmed ID:
  21623181
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3105328
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  T90 NR010824/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States ; T90 NR010824-03/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States ; 5T90NR010824-02/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States ; 5 U50 CD3000-860-21/CD/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:18ed26def7021fd7644a5d2d36ee102b2b9548a93e4f20f96bc3b7e74f2301c5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33203/cdc_33203_DS1.pdf
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