Skip to main content
Print this sectionPrint this section

Transmission Based Precautions

- References

1. National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Australian guidelines for the prevention and control of infection in healthcare. 2019:134.

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Guideline for isolation precautions: preventing transmission of infectious agents in healthcare settings. 2007 [updated Nov 27, 2023].

3. National Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Clinical Guideline. Infection prevention and control (IPC) national clinical guideline No. 30, Volume 1. May 2023.

4. Mannion R, Freeman T, Millar R, Davies H. Effective board governance of safe care: a (theoretically underpinned) cross-sectioned examination of the breadth and depth of relationships through national quantitative surveys and in-depth qualitative case studies. Health Serv Deliv Res. 2016;4(4).

5. Bismark MM, Studdert DM. Governance of quality of care: a qualitative study of health service boards in Victoria, Australia. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23(6):474–82.

6. Pannick S, Davis R, Ashrafian H, Byrne BE, Beveridge I, Athanasiou T, et al. Effects of interdisciplinary team care interventions on general medical wards: a systematic review. JAMA Intern Med. 2015;175(8):1288–98.

7. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. National Model Clinical Governance Framework. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2017.

8. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Australian Open Disclosure Framework. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2013 [accessed Oct 2017].

9. Roughead EE, Semple SJ, Rosenfeld E. Literature review: medication safety in Australia. Sydney: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care; 2013 [accessed Sep 2017].

10. Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization. Australian immunization handbook. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health; 2018 [cited 2021 Apr].

11. Mitchell BG, Shaban RZ, MacBeth D, Wood CJ, Russo PL. The burden of healthcare-associated infection in Australian hospitals: a systematic review of the literature. Infect Dis Health. 2017;22(3):117–28.

12. National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention. Care after a suicide attempt. Sydney: National Mental Health Commission; 2015.

13. Posters for contact, airborne and droplet precautions available at https://www.emro.who.int/world-hand-hygiene-day/2023/index.html

14. Posters for Combined airborne and contact precautions, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care available on “ https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-04/Combined%20airborne%20and%20contact%20precautions.pdf”

15.  Appendix A. : Further details on type and duration of precautions recommended for selected infections and conditions available on “ https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/hcp/isolation-precautions/appendix-a-type-duration.html#print”