Changes to physician and nurse time burdens when caring for patients under contact precautions

Publication date: Available online 13 March 2017
Source:American Journal of Infection Control
Author(s): Anna K. Barker, James Codella, Tola Ewers, Adam Dundon, Oguzhan Alagoz, Nasia Safdar
Contact precautions are complex behavioral interventions. To better understand barriers to compliance, we conducted a prospective study that compared the time burden for health care workers caring for contact precautions patients versus other patients. We found that nurses spent significantly more time in the rooms of contact precautions patients. There was no significant change in physician timing. Future studies need to evaluate workflow changes so that barriers to contact precaution implementation can be fully understood and addressed.



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