Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

• Reduction of SARS-CoV-2 intra-household child-to-parent transmission associated with ventilation: results from a case–control study
• Infection prevention measures for patients on hemodialysis during COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a nationwide questionnaire follow-up survey in 2022
• Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
• Effect of a multimodal strategy for prevention of nosocomial influenza: a retrospective study at Grenoble Alpes University Hospital from 2014 to 2019

Healthcare Worker Isolation Precautions Practice

• Using bottleneck analysis to examine the implementation of standard precautions in hospitals. (July 1, 2020)
• User-centred participatory design of visual cues for isolation precautions. (November, 2019)
• Droplet precautions on site instead of single room isolation for respiratory tract infections. (August, 2019)
• 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.(May 31, 2016)
• 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. (December 15, 2015)
• 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?. (February, 2010)

Effects of Isolation Precautions

• How Standard Are Standard Precautions? Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Standard Precautions at an Academic Medical Center. (August 1, 2020)
• Getting Their Attention: Using Human Factors Engineering to Design the Optimal Isolation Sign. (August 1, 2020)
• The Impact of Isolation on Healthcare Worker Contact and Compliance With Infection Control Practices in Nursing Homes. (June, 2018).
• Reduction in Rate of Nosocomial Respiratory Virus Infections in a Children’s Hospital Associated With Enhanced Isolation Precautions. (February, 2018).
• 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? (August 11, 2020)
• 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. (April, 2019)
• Failure to Communicate: Transmission of Extensively Drug-Resistant bla OXA-237-Containing Acinetobacter baumannii—Multiple Facilities in Oregon, 2012–2014. (November, 2017)
• Degowning the controversies of contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A review. (January 1, 2016)
• 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. (June, 2015)
• 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. (December, 2014).