Hospital bundle prevented patient exposures during measles outbreak

SEATTLE — An epidemiologist whose hospital responded to a recent measles outbreak described how the hospital was able to eliminate patient exposures with an intervention bundle that used electronic medical records.
Unvaccinated children were at the center of the outbreak in central Ohio, which was declared over in February. In all, 80 of the 85 children infected in the outbreak were unvaccinated against measles.
Katia C. Halabi, MD, associate medical director of hospital epidemiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, described the hospital’s response to the

SEATTLE — An epidemiologist whose hospital responded to a recent measles outbreak described how the hospital was able to eliminate patient exposures with an intervention bundle that used electronic medical records.
Unvaccinated children were at the center of the outbreak in central Ohio, which was declared over in February. In all, 80 of the 85 children infected in the outbreak were unvaccinated against measles.
Katia C. Halabi, MD, associate medical director of hospital epidemiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, described the hospital’s response to the