Transmission Based Precautions
Page last updated 10/9/2024.
This webpage provides resources for implementing transmission-based precautions in healthcare facilities. These materials can be used to enhance infection control communication at your facility. All materials are available in multiple languages.
For more information about the principles on this webpage, visit the Centers of Disease Prevention and Control Standard and Transmission Based Precautions and CDC Enhanced Barrier Precautions in LTCFs.
See below, or click the following links, to access the signs:
Transmission Based Precautions
Use Transmission Based Precautions for patients/residents known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by through contact, droplet, and aerosols. (e.g., COVID-19).
English | معلومات باللغة العربية (Arabic) | 中文信息 (Chinese) | فارسی (Farsi) | 한국어 정보 (Korean) | Macluumaad Af-Soomaali ah (Somali) | Español (Spanish) | Impormasyon sa Tagalog (Tagalog) | Thông Tin Bằng Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Use Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP) for patients/residents in long term care facilities who meet the criteria for this program. For more information about Enhanced Barrier Precautions, visit CDC Enhanced Barrier Precautions in LTCFs.
English | معلومات باللغة العربية (Arabic) | 中文信息 (Chinese) | فارسی (Farsi) | 한국어 정보 (Korean) | Macluumaad Af-Soomaali ah (Somali) | Español (Spanish) | Impormasyon sa Tagalog (Tagalog) | Thông Tin Bằng Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Use Contact Precautions for patients/residents known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by touching contaminated surfaces, objects or during close contact with the patient/resident. (e.g., multi-drug resistant organism (MDROs) not eligible for ESP/EBP, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), draining wounds not contained by dressings, scabies).
English | معلومات باللغة العربية (Arabic) | 中文信息 (Chinese) | فارسی (Farsi) | 한국어 정보 (Korean) | Macluumaad Af-Soomaali ah (Somali) | Español (Spanish) | Impormasyon sa Tagalog (Tagalog) | Thông Tin Bằng Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Use Enteric Contact Precautions for patients/residents known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by contaminated hands or surfaces from gastrointestinal infections in which hand washing is encouraged as additional part of hand hygiene practices. (e.g., hepatitis A, norovirus, or Clostridioides difficile).
English | معلومات باللغة العربية (Arabic) | 中文信息 (Chinese) | فارسی (Farsi) | 한국어 정보 (Korean) | Macluumaad Af-Soomaali ah (Somali) | Español (Spanish) | Impormasyon sa Tagalog (Tagalog) | Thông Tin Bằng Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Use Droplet Precautions for patients/residents known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by respiratory droplets that are generated by a patient/resident who is coughing, sneezing, or talking. (e.g., influenza or meningococcal disease).
English | معلومات باللغة العربية (Arabic) | 中文信息 (Chinese) | فارسی (Farsi) | 한국어 정보 (Korean) | Macluumaad Af-Soomaali ah (Somali) | Español (Spanish) | Impormasyon sa Tagalog (Tagalog) | Thông Tin Bằng Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Use Airborne Precautions for patients/residents known or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by the airborne route (e.g., pulmonary tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, or disseminated shingles).
English | معلومات باللغة العربية (Arabic) | 中文信息 (Chinese) | فارسی (Farsi) | 한국어 정보 (Korean) | Macluumaad Af-Soomaali ah (Somali) | Español (Spanish) | Impormasyon sa Tagalog (Tagalog) | Thông Tin Bằng Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
For more information, use the HAI Program contact form, or e-mail at phs.hai.hhsa@sdcounty.ca.gov, or call the Epidemiology Unit at (619) 692-8499.
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