Risk of nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019: comparison between single- and multiple-occupancy rooms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is an ongoing controversy regarding whether single-occupancy rooms are superior to multiple-occupancy rooms in terms of infection prevention. We investigated whether treatment in a multiple-occupancy room is associated with an increased incidence of nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) compared with treatment in a single-occupancy room.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, every hospitalization period of adult patients aged ≥ 18 years at a tertiary hospital in Korea from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022, was analyzed. If COVID-19 was diagnosed more than 5 days after hospitalization, the case was classified as nosocomial. We estimated the association between the number of patients per room and the risk of nosocomial COVID-19 using a Cox

SUBMITTER: Jo HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11365205 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature