SHEA Pediatric Leadership Council commentary: Inpatient visitor considerations for pediatric patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Cohen Children's Medical Center, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York.
⁵ Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
⁷ UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
⁸ Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁹ Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia.
¹⁰ Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
¹² Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Department of Quality, University of California San Francisco Health, San Francisco, California.
¹³ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Allison H Bartlett et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;42(11):1369-1371.

doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.243. Epub 2021 Jun 11.

¹ Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Cohen Children's Medical Center, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York.
⁵ Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
⁷ UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
⁸ Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁹ Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia.
¹⁰ Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
¹² Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Department of Quality, University of California San Francisco Health, San Francisco, California.
¹³ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

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