Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Healthcare Worker Isolation Precaution Practice

• Using bottleneck analysis to examine the implementation of standard precautions in hospitals. (2020 Jul 1).
• User-centred participatory design of visual cues for isolation precautions. (2019 Nov).
• Droplet precautions on site instead of single room isolation for respiratory tract infections. (2019 Aug).
• N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Personnel: A Randomized Clinical Trial. (2019).
• Reasons and consequences of low adherence to standard precautions by the nursing team.(2016 May 31).
• The relationship between patient safety climate and standard precaution adherence: a systematic review of the literature. (2016).
• Influencing factors on use of standard precautions against occupational exposures to blood and body fluids among nurses in China. (2015 Dec 15).
• Barriers to the use of face protection for standard precautions by health care providers. (2015).
• Protecting healthcare workers from pandemic influenza: N95 or surgical masks?. (2010 Feb).

Patient and Public Isolation Precaution

• How Standard Are Standard Precautions? Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Standard Precautions at an Academic Medical Center. (2020 Aug 1).
• Getting Their Attention: Using Human Factors Engineering to Design the Optimal Isolation Sign. (2020 Aug 1).
• The Impact of Isolation on Healthcare Worker Contact and Compliance With Infection Control Practices in Nursing Homes. (2018 Jun).
• Reduction in Rate of Nosocomial Respiratory Virus Infections in a Children’s Hospital Associated With Enhanced Isolation Precautions. (2018 Feb).
• Patient Isolation Precautions: Are They Worth It?. (2016).
• Infection control precautions for visitors to healthcare facilities. (2015).
• The Effect of Contact Precautions on Frequency of Hospital Adverse Events. (2015).

Transmission Assessment

• Is there a risk for bacterial transmission from surgical marker pens? (2020 Aug 11).
• Efficacy of Face Shields Against Cough Aerosol Droplets from a Cough Simulator. (2014).
• A Cough Aerosol Simulator for the Study of Disease Transmission by Human Cough-Generated Aerosols. (2013).

Against Drug-Resistance Organism Transmission

• Transmission pathways of multidrug-resistant organisms in the hospital setting: a scoping review. (2019 Apr).
• Failure to Communicate: Transmission of Extensively Drug-Resistant bla OXA-237-Containing Acinetobacter baumannii—Multiple Facilities in Oregon, 2012–2014. (2017 Nov).
• Degowning the controversies of contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A review. (2016 Jan 1).
• Prospective Validation of Cessation of Contact Precautions for Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Escherichia coli. (2016).
• Automated tracking and ordering of precautions for multidrug-resistant organisms. (2015 Jun).
• Effectiveness of contact precautions against multidrug-resistant organism transmission in acute care: a systematic review of the literature. (2015).
• About the usefulness of contact precautions for carriers of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli. (2015).
• Transmission-based contact precautions for multidrug-resistant organisms in trauma patients: fewer days in isolation with no increase in hospital-associated infections. (2014 Dec).