In conclusion, the lesson from our study is that implementation of a isolation policy for patients with antibodies to HCV is insufficient to prevent new HCV infections when infection control measures are lacking, especially in units with a high burden of HCV infection and, likely, understaffing.
Timely detection of MRSA carriers is crucial to an effective isolation policy.
Ongoing in-service training of staff and a standardized isolation policy should improve these rates.
Although, it has a more complex isolation policy, the parallel structure exhibits a more robust fault isolation capability.
Because of some earlier clusters of MRSA cross-transmission, since 1999 the surgical ICU has applied a pre-emptive isolation policy in patients at high risk for MRSA carriage on admission (for example, transfer from another health care facility) [ 21].
In November 2003 (surgical ICU) and April 2004 (medical ICU), the ICUs introduced a general pre-emptive isolation policy for all patients.
Last year, in a larger discussion about the isolation policy and appropriate uses of the Internet, the students voted to prohibit any of their number from maintaining a Facebook account.
The Obama administration — in a major shift from President George W. Bush's isolation policy toward Iran, which he once branded part of an "axis of evil" — has expressed an openness to direct diplomatic contacts with Iran.
Objectives – The authors wanted to assess the impact of an "isolation" reinforcement policy in a French general hospital intensive care unit (ICU), between 1994 and 1999.
