ArticleAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE2025
The impact of less restrictive quarantine for exposed COVID-19 patients in inpatient psychiatric settings: a cohort analysis.
Article in Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: To quantify the impact of a changing cohort strategy on COVID-19 transmission in an acute inpatient behavioral health facility. Design: Cohort study. Patients: Behavioral health inpatients exposed to COVID-19. Interventions: This cohort project compared COVID-19 conversion rates during two periods. In the first period (July 2020-April 2022), exposed patients (regardless of vaccination status) were cohorted separately from unexposed individuals. In the second period (May 2022-September 2022), exposed vaccinated patients remained with unexposed patients. COVID-19 conversion was identified through post-exposure asymptomatic testing or test-confirmed symptom development, with rates quantified per all admissions, per 10,000 patient days at risk, and per patient-specific exposure. Results: The 27-month project included 11,761 admissions and 164,762 patient days of care. The proportion of patients up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination at admission and discharge ranged from 11%-19%. The second period showed an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 conversion per admission (1.87% vs 0.36%, Conclusions: Reducing the population of patients cohorted after a SARS-COV-2 exposure is associated with increased risk of SARS-COV-2 transmission in inpatient psychiatric settings.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.