Visitation and universal masking impact to healthcare-associated respiratory viral infection rates in a freestanding children’s hospital

2025/06/03 by Kellie Rusin, Samuel R. Dominguez, Kelly Pearce +3 · 1 voice
Medicine · #Infection Control and Ventilation

paper · doi:10.1017/ice.2025.95

openalex publication_date 2025/06/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Abstract Pediatric healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections (HA-RVI) were evaluated during four intervention periods using different visitation models. Allowing two visitors and requiring universal masking significantly decreased HA-RVI rates ( P < .001). There was no significant difference in HA-RVI rates between periods restricting younger siblings versus periods allowing all siblings without seasonal/age restriction.

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