Was hospital move to all private rooms associated with reductions in health care-related infections?

What The Study Did: A Montreal hospital moved from an older facility with ward-type rooms to a new facility with all private rooms and this analysis examined whether that was associated with reductions in multidrug-resistant organism colonization and health care-associated infections.

Authors: Todd C. Lee, M.D., M.P.H., of McGill University in Montreal, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2798)

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