title: Documentation of contact precautions in an electronic health record.
abstract: Contact precautions are implemented to reduce transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms but may also increase hospital costs and patient complications. The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of documentation of contact precautions (provider orders and nursing flowsheet documentation) in an electronic health record. Orders and nursing documentation were simultaneously present for only 42.3% of patient rooms with contact precaution signs, and 17.8% of rooms with signs had neither orders nor nursing documentation.
authors.affiliation: Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance, Columbia University School of Nursing, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Bevin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Sarah A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Clock
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Behta
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: Reonel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saddul
authors.forename: David K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Vawdrey
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004282:Documentation; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D009737:Nursing Records