Should I stay or should I go? Patient understandings of and responses to source-isolation practices

• Main Authors: Mary Wyer (Author), Rick Iedema (Author), Christine Jorm (Author), Gary Armstrong (Author), Su-Yin Hor (Author), Claire Hooker (Author), Debra Jackson (Author), Clarissa Hughes (Author), Matthew O'Sullivan (Author), Gwendolyn Gilbert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Beryl Institute, 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Isolation of patients, who are colonised or infected with a multidrug-resistant organism (source-isolation), is a common practice in most acute health-care settings, to prevent transmission to other patients. Efforts to improve the efficacy of source-isolation in hospitals focus on healthcare staff...