A study suggests that the move to single-patient rooms at the McGill University Health Centre's (MUHC) Glen site in 2015 resulted in significantly reduced rates of hospital-acquired infections, according to an article on the Medical Xpress website.
A team at the Research Institute of the McGill in Montreal, Quebec, found that rates of both colonization and blood infections due to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus(VRE) fell immediately.
"The single-patient room experience at the MUHC's Glen site has many benefits—privacy, confidentiality, comfort, reduced noise and improved quality of sleep, said the study's first author Dr. Emily Gibson McDonald.
"Importantly, this study also found that private rooms might help reduce life-threatening infections."
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