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Prior editions of Making Healthcare Safer have mixed certainty evidence for various other patient safety practices.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>As part of Making Healthcare Safer IV, we performed an updated systematic review on the certainty of evidence for the following safety practices at reducing in-facility MDRO infections in adult patients: universal gloving, contact precautions, cohorting, environmental decontamination, patient decolonisation and the adverse effects of isolation.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We searched PubMed and the Cochrane Library 2011\u2013May 2023 for systematic reviews and original research studies, both randomised and observational. Settings were limited to high-income countries. Screening and eligibility were done in duplicate, while data extraction was done by one reviewer and checked by a second reviewer. The synthesis of results is narrative. Certainty of evidence was based on the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) framework.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Three systematic reviews and three original research studies provided moderate certainty evidence that patient decolonisation reduced MDRO infections, although restricted to certain populations and organisms. One systematic review provided low certainty evidence that universal gloving was beneficial, again limited to certain populations. One systematic review and two original research studies provided low certainty evidence of benefit for environmental decontamination. One systematic review and one new original study provided low certainty evidence of benefit for cohorting in outbreak settings, and very low certainty evidence of benefit in endemic settings. Six original research studies provide mixed evidence for benefit of contact precautions. There is very low certainty evidence of a signal of increased non-infectious adverse events under patients in contact isolation.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In general, the reviewed patient safety practices reduced MDRO infections, but certainty of evidence was low.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>PROSPERO registration number<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>CRD42023444973.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjqs-2024-017545","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,26]],"date-time":"2024-09-26T13:20:46Z","timestamp":1727356846000},"page":"244-256","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Prevention in adults of transmission of infection with multidrug-resistant organisms: an updated systematic review from Making Healthcare Safer IV"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Sean","family":"McCarthy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0840-8580","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aneesa","family":"Motala","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA"},{"name":"University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paul G","family":"Shekelle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA"},{"name":"RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025090411063446000_34.4.244.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMoa1801550"},{"key":"2025090411063446000_34.4.244.2","unstructured":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . 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