Isolation After Admission Linked to Higher Risk of Delirium

Patients who were placed on contact precautions at some point after admission to a hospital were 1.75 times more likely to develop delirium, according to a Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of American release.

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Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on contact precautions.

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