| Title | Association Between Children\'s Hospital Visitor Restrictions and Healthcare-Associated Viral Respiratory Infections: A Quasi-Experimental Study. | ||
| Author | Forkpa, Hawa; Rupp, Angela H; Shulman, Stanford T; Patel, Sameer J; Gray, Elizabeth L; Zheng, Xiaotian; Bovee, Maria; Kociolek, Larry K | ||
| Journal | J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc | Publication Year/Month | 2020-Apr |
| PMID | 30989226 | PMCID | PMC7107505 |
| Affiliation + expend | 1.Departments of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. | ||
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.