"Patient Isolation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The segregation of patients with communicable or other diseases for a specified time. Isolation may be strict, in which movement and social contacts are limited; modified, where an effort to control specified aspects of care is made in order to prevent cross infection; or reverse, where the patient is secluded in a controlled or germ-free environment in order to protect him or her from cross infection.
| Descriptor ID |
D010356
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.770 N06.850.780.200.450.650
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Patient Isolation".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Patient Isolation".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Isolation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Isolation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient Isolation" by people in Profiles.
-
Hematology and oncology clinical care during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. CA Cancer J Clin. 2020 09; 70(5):349-354.
-
Clinical distancing of hospitalized patients with advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation during COVID-19. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020 07; 39(7):730.
-
How Prepared Are Medical and Nursing Students to Identify Common Hazards in the Intensive Care Unit? Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Apr; 14(4):543-549.
-
Preparing for renal replacement therapy in patients with the Ebola virus disease. Blood Purif. 2014; 38(3-4):276-85.
-
Multidrug-resistant organisms contaminating supply carts of contact isolation patients. Am J Infect Control. 2014 Oct; 42(10):1124-6.
-
Medical care for people in transition: symptoms may point to stories. Health Prog. 2014 Mar-Apr; 95(2):49-52.
-
Depression, anxiety, and moods of hospitalized patients under contact precautions. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2013 Mar; 34(3):251-8.
-
Association between contact precautions and delirium at a tertiary care center. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 Jan; 33(1):34-9.
-
Association between depression and contact precautions in veterans at hospital admission. Am J Infect Control. 2011 Mar; 39(2):163-5.
-
Back to basics: Four years of sustained improvement in implementation of contact precautions at a university hospital. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010 Sep; 36(9):418-23.