Patient Isolation

"Patient Isolation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The segregation of patients with communicable or other diseases for a specified time. Isolation may be strict, in which movement and social contacts are limited; modified, where an effort to control specified aspects of care is made in order to prevent cross infection; or reverse, where the patient is secluded in a controlled or germ-free environment in order to protect him or her from cross infection.

Descriptor ID	D010356
MeSH Number(s)	E02.770 N06.850.780.200.450.650
Concept/Terms	Patient Isolation Patient Isolation Isolation, Patient

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Therapeutics [E02]
Patient Isolation [E02.770]
Health Care [N]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Public Health Practice [N06.850.780]
Communicable Disease Control [N06.850.780.200]
Infection Control [N06.850.780.200.450]
Patient Isolation [N06.850.780.200.450.650]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	0	2	2
2000	2	1	3
2004	1	0	1
2005	1	0	1
2006	0	1	1
2007	1	1	2
2008	1	0	1
2009	0	1	1
2011	1	0	1
2013	0	1	1
2014	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1

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Masters KJ. Seclusion and Restraint: The Voice of the Patient. Can J Psychiatry. 2018 02; 63(2):78-79.

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Madan A, Borckardt JJ, Grubaugh AL, Danielson CK, McLeod-Bryant S, Cooney H, Herbert J, Hardesty SJ, Frueh BC. Efforts to reduce seclusion and restraint use in a state psychiatric hospital: a ten-year perspective. Psychiatr Serv. 2014 Oct; 65(10):1273-6.

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Bookstaver PB, Ahmed Y, Millisor VE, Siddiqui W, Albrecht H. Clostridium difficile: case report and concise review of fecal microbiota transplantation. J S C Med Assoc. 2013 Jun; 109(2):62-6.

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Borckardt JJ, Madan A, Grubaugh AL, Danielson CK, Pelic CG, Hardesty SJ, Hanson R, Herbert J, Cooney H, Benson A, Frueh BC. Systematic investigation of initiatives to reduce seclusion and restraint in a state psychiatric hospital. Psychiatr Serv. 2011 May; 62(5):477-83.

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Salgado CD, Mauldin PD, Fogle PJ, Bosso JA. Analysis of an outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection controlled with enhanced infection control measures. Am J Infect Control. 2009 Aug; 37(6):458-64.

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Bostick NA, Levine MA, Sade RM. Ethical obligations of physicians participating in public health quarantine and isolation measures. Public Health Rep. 2008 Jan-Feb; 123(1):3-8.

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Borckardt JJ, Grubaugh AL, Pelic CG, Danielson CK, Hardesty SJ, Frueh BC. Enhancing patient safety in psychiatric settings. J Psychiatr Pract. 2007 Nov; 13(6):355-61.

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Hardesty S, Borckardt JJ, Hanson R, Grubaugh AL, Danielson CK, Madan A, Weinstein BL, Hogarth CR, Pelic C, Hazy J, Shoemaker ML. Evaluating initiatives to reduce seclusion and restraint. J Healthc Qual. 2007 Jul-Aug; 29(4):46-55.

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West TE, Guerry C, Hiott M, Morrow N, Ward K, Salgado CD. Effect of targeted surveillance for control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a community hospital system. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2006 Mar; 27(3):233-8.

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Rozovsky-Weinberger J, Parada JP, Phan L, Droller DG, Deloria-Knoll M, Chmiel JS, Bennett CL. Delays in suspicion and isolation among hospitalized persons with pulmonary tuberculosis at public and private US hospitals during 1996 to 1999. Chest. 2005 Jan; 127(1):205-12.

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