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Follow-up Evaluation of Respiratory Isolation Rooms in 10 Midwestern Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Karen M. Dahl ,
Paul B. L'Ecuyer ,
Marilyn Jones  and
Victoria J. Fraser
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Abstract

As a follow-up to a 1992 study of respiratory isolation, we studied compliance with recommendations for respiratory isolation through smokestick testing (1993) and surveys (1994). Effective negative pressure was demonstrated in 80 of 156 rooms and was associated with the presence of anterooms (P<.001). The proportion of surveyed hospitals periodically testing isolation rooms increased from 0% (1992) to 30% (1993) to 100% (1994; P<.001).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 12 , December 1996 , pp. 816 - 818
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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