Visitors who have any respiratory illness symptoms should
be discouraged from visiting patients.
Health-care workers who are ill should be restricted
from working until they are healthy.
If a suspected influenza
outbreak occurs among nursing home or hospitalized patients,
steps to identify influenza as the cause and to control
its spread should be instituted.
The primary measure
to prevent patients from getting influenza in a health-care
setting is vaccination of both patients and health-care
workers.
Bradley SF, The Long-Term-Care Committee of the Society
for health-care Epidemiology of America. Prevention of
influenza in long-term care facilities. Infect Control
Hosp Epidemiol 1999;20:629-37
Educational Resources
Poster: Notice to Patients to Report Flu Symptoms PDF (76KB / 1 page) This 8.5" x 11" color poster can be printed, displayed and/or distributed. It emphasizes covering coughs and sneezes and the cleaning of hands.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333,
U.S.A
Tel: 404-639-3311 / Flu Public Inquiries: 800-CDC-INFO • TTY 800-243-7889
Clinician Information Line: 877-554-4625