Vincent Masse, Louis Valiquette, Soraya Boukhoudmi, Francis Bonenfant, Yasmine Talab, Jean-Christophe Carvalho, Isabelle Alarie, Nathalie Carrier, Paul Farand

Patient isolation using contact precautions has gained widespread use to halt MRSA transmission, however supportive data is scarce and concerns regarding patient safety and satisfaction have been raised. At our institution, MRSA patients are isolated on a dedicated ward (cohort isolation), rather than in separate rooms. Our objectives were (1) to determine the proportion of bedside medical visits to patients on an isolation ward, (2) to quantify complications in those patients and (3) to determine if those complications are related to isolation and if they can be prevented.