Study setting and patients
ESBL-E
SEPARATION, SECONDARY
The project was a secondary analysis of the contact isolation period within a cluster-randomized crossover trial that compared contact isolation and standard precautions to control ESBL-E in 4 European countries.During contact isolation periods, patients with a known history of ESBL-E were cared for under contact isolation beginning at the time of admission. For those without a history of ESBL-E, contact isolation was initiated when ESBL-E was detected in a surveillance or clinical culture. Contact isolation required accommodation of patients with ESBL-E in single-bed rooms, side rooms with spatial separation, or shared rooms with other patients with ESBL-E, as well as the use of gloves and gowns for contacts with ESBL-E–positive patients.