BACKGROUND: One of the main activities of the Infection Control Team (ICT) is to minimize the
risk of transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms from colonized and/or infected
patients to other patients or healthcare workers, by installing and monitoring compliance
with precautions and isolations recommendations. Transmission-based precautions (TBP)—contact,
droplets and airbone infection isolation—when not properly indicated, can increase
costs and cause problems to patients. We aimed to evaluate the adequacy of TBP prescription
in a 300-bed private hospital in Sao Paulo-Brazil, focusing on costs.
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