'Contact Precautions' in healthcare
facilities could increase the likelihood of patients contacting personal
injury solicitors Burnley to make a medical negligence claim, as a study
has found these precautions are linked to significantly higher levels of
patient dissatisfaction.
Hospitals routinely use Contact Precautions
to control infection risk and prevent drug-resistant bacteria from spreading
between staff and patients, and therefore wear gloves and gowns whenever they
are in contact with a person who is under these precautions.
But they could lead to no win no fee solicitor Burnley compensation claims, as a study published in Infection
Control and Hospital Epidemiology and led by Preeti Mehrotra, MD, revealed that
people under Contact Precautions (Contact Isolation) are twice as likely to
complain of problems during care as those who are not under these precautions.
Some of the issues these patients complained about included poor care
coordination and a failure to respect their individual preferences.
Researchers looked into 528 surgical and
medical patients, performing an interview on the date of enrollment into the
study and then on their third, seventh, fourteenth and final day in hospital to
discover this trend. They suggested that educating patients in the reasons for
Contact Precautions and educating workers in the need for more patient visits
could help to positively influence the experiences of these patients.
Interventions ought to be implemented that
ensure that every hospital patient receives the same duty of care, regardless
of whether they are under Contact Precautions or not. Furthermore, healthcare
management should start a conversation with their staff regarding the
advantages and drawbacks of patient isolation and Contact Precautions.
