Apr 3, 2024 · Use Contact Precautions for patients with known or suspected infections that represent an increased risk for contact transmission. Ensure appropriate patient placement in a single patient space or room if available in acute care hospitals.

Standard Precautions are infection prevention practices that apply to all care activities, regardless of suspected or confirmed infection status. In contrast, Transmission-Based Precautions are added measures for infection prevention strategies to prevent the spread of specific diseases.

The type of transmission-based precautions assigned to a patient depends on the transmission route of the microorganism: contact, droplet, or airborne. Standard precautions are required for all patients, in any health care setting. The following resources should be consulted for additional information about standard precautions:

In many different healthcare settings, transmission-based precautions are used to help stop the spread of germs from one person to another. The goal is to protect patients, their families, other visitors, and healthcare workers—and stop germs from spreading across a healthcare setting.

Nov 22, 2023 · Transmission-Based Precautions are for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control measures to effectively prevent transmission.

Jun 20, 2022 · Transmission-based precautions (TBP) are used in addition to standard precautions for patients with known or suspected infection or colonization with transmissible and/or epidemiologically significant pathogens.

Sep 4, 2023 · The main types of transmission-based precautions defined by the CDC result from direct or indirect patient contact, bloodborne products, droplet, and airborne. Each kind of transmission-based precaution is dependent on the type of infection or pathogen the patient or source has, as outlined as follows:

Use of appropriate transmission-based precautions at the time a patient develops symptoms or signs of transmissible infection, or arrives at a healthcare facility for care, reduces transmission opportunities.

Transmission-based Isolation Precautions are designed for patients with suspected and/or confirmed infection or colonization with organisms that require practices in addition to Standard Precautions to prevent transmission.

Standard precautions are a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes.