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Prevention of hospital-acquired respiratory viral infections: Assessment of a multimodal intervention program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

Leonard A. Mermel ,
Julie A. Jefferson ,
Michael A. Smit  and
Dianne B. Auld
Leonard A. Mermel*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Julie A. Jefferson
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Michael A. Smit
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island Department of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dianne B. Auld
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Infection Control, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
*
Author for correspondence: Leonard A. Mermel, Email: lmermel@lifespan.org
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Abstract

A multimodal program focused on preventing nosocomial respiratory viral infections. Definite cases per 1,000 discharges increased 1.3-fold in hospital units screening visitors for respiratory viral symptoms during the 2017–2018 respiratory virus season but not during the 2016–2017 season. Definite cases per 1,000 discharges increased 3.1-fold in hospital units that did not screen visitors either season.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , March 2019 , pp. 362 - 364
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© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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