These precautions include isolating persons with suspected TB in patient rooms with specialized air handling known as airborne infection isolation rooms. To improve our ability to assess patients ...

Patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB) require special precautions in healthcare facilities, and cases of TB have been rising in the US over the past several years. These precautions include ...

Airborne transmission ... in reducing the risk of infection. One significant area of research has been the evaluation of guidelines for airborne and droplet precautions for healthcare workers ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and ...

place the patient in an airborne infection isolation room with negative pressure. All caregivers should have standard, contact and airborne precautions with eye protections. 5. Promptly notify the ...

A new clinical decision support system, "TBorNotTB," helps streamline airborne infection isolation decisions, reducing workload while maintaining TB detection accuracy. Study: TB or not TB?

These precautions include isolating persons with suspected TB in patient rooms with specialized air handling known as airborne infection isolation rooms. To improve our ability to assess patients ...

They created a validated model to assess the likelihood of TB infection before discontinuing isolation precautions ... decision support system to inform airborne isolation requirements in the ...