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The Lancet

Volume 354, Issue 9185, 2 October 1999, Pages 1177-1178
The Lancet

Research Letters
Adverse effects of contact isolation

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Summary

Health-care workers are half as likely to enter the rooms of patients in contact isolation, but are more likely to wash their hands after caring for them than after caring for patients not in isolation

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