Tools & Resources

Updates Enhanced Barrier Precautions Guidance

QIO Program Admin
QIO Program Admin • July 23, 2024
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In this video created by Quality Insights, Dr. Jean Storm gives an overview of enhanced barrier precautions (EBPs) and discusses the latest updates for EBP guidance. Through watching this video, viewers will learn: 

  • A brief history of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs); the cause, spread, colonization, infection; and who is at risk
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) rationale for recommending Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP)
  • Guidelines for implementation of EPBs to the nursing home population