Things We Do For No Reason: Contact Precautions for MRSA and VRE.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Patient care experience with utilization of isolation precautions: systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2020
   Pooled it
2. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026
   Review
3. Plastic Waste and COVID-19 Incidence Among Hospital Staff After Deescalation in PPE Use.JAMA network open · 2025
   Article
4. Let's doff: a gown conservation strategy for multidrug-resistant organism colonization during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025
   Article
5. Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: Current Understandings of Resistance in Relation to Transmission and Preventive Strategies.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
   Review
6. Doff Thy Gown-Shedding Contact Precautions for COVID-19.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024
   Article
7. Implementation of contact precautions for multidrug-resistant organisms in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: An updated national Emerging Infections Network (EIN) survey.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2024
   Article
8. Considering the precautionary principle and its application to MRSA and SARS-CoV-2 as emerging novel pathogens of their time.Infection, disease & health · 2023
   Article
9. Risk factors for transmission of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales to healthcare personnel gloves and gowns in the USA.The Journal of hospital infection · 2021
   Observational
10. "Doc, I'm Going for a Walk": Liberalizing or Restricting the Movement of Hospitalized Patients-Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Considerations.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2020
    Article
11. Stop Doing Needless Things! Saving Healthcare Resources During COVID-19 and Beyond.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020
    Article
12. Finding the Value in Personal Protective Equipment for Hospitalized Patients During a Pandemic and Beyond.Journal of hospital medicine · 2020
    Article
13. Barrier Precautions in the Era of Multidrug Pathogens.Current treatment options in infectious diseases · 2020
    Review
14. Things We Do For Good Reasons: Contact Precautions for Multidrug-resistant Organisms, Including MRSA and VRE.Journal of hospital medicine · 2019
    Article

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Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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