Taking off the gown: Impact of discontinuing contact precautions for extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms

• Egile Nagusiak: Lindsey B. Gottlieb (Egilea), Emily Walits (Egilea), Gopi Patel (Egilea), Sarah Schaefer (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Cambridge University Press, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Contact precautions are used to prevent the spread of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms in acute-care hospitals, but supporting data are lacking. We discontinued such precautions for ESBL Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp and found no increased prevalence of these organisms...