Infectious gastroenteritis and the need for strict contact precaution procedures in adults presenting to the emergency department: a Danish register-based study

The initiation of contact precautions has to be assessed for 4.3% of all emergency department patients; 19% of the patients who had a faecal sample tested had highly contagious gastroenteritis and required strict contact precautions. Further studies are needed to develop tools to determine which patients to isolate.