title: Commissioning a new hospital isolation unit and assessment of its use over five years.
abstract: Experience in commissioning and running a new hospital isolation unit, together with some problems and their solutions are described. The main problems were low bed-occupancy and insufficient work for the staff. This was solved by admitting both infected and non-infected cases including immunosuppressed. An assessment of the unit and benefits derived after 5 years use was made. A reduction in outbreaks of hospital infection and in ward closures resulting from infection was demonstrated.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rahman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control; D004739:England; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006767:Hospitals, District; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010356:Patient Isolation