ArticleJournal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society2020
Association Between Children's Hospital Visitor Restrictions and Healthcare-Associated Viral Respiratory Infections: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
Article in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Lessons from COVID-19 patient visitation restrictions: six considerations to help develop ethical patient visitor policies.Monash bioethics review · 2025Article
- Video call program for intensive care patients and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective study.Saudi medical journal · 2025Article
- Successful management of human parainfluenza virus-3 outbreak in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit.Saudi medical journal · 2025Article
- Infection control strategies for patients and accompanying persons during the COVID-19 pandemic in German hospitals: a cross-sectional study in March-April 2021.The Journal of hospital infection · 2022Article
- SHEA Pediatric Leadership Council commentary: Inpatient visitor considerations for pediatric patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2021Article
- Consequences of visiting restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An integrative review.International journal of nursing studies · 2021Review
- Hospital Associated Respiratory Virus Infection in Children and Adults: It Does Not Just Occur During Cold and Flu Season.Open forum infectious diseases · 2020Article
- The Impact of Visiting Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Patients.Journal of pediatric nursingArticle
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Abstract
We investigated the effect of annual winter visitor restrictions on hospital respiratory virus transmission. The healthcare-associated (HA) viral respiratory infection (VRI) transmission index (number of HA VRIs per 100 inpatient community-associated VRIs) was 59% lower during the months in which visitor restrictions were implemented. These data prompt consideration for instituting year-round visitor restrictions.
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