Ipac Fall 2023

Ipac Fall 2023 2023-24 Respiratory Illness Season Page 1/4 IPAC Considerations for Information current as of October 2023 Infectious Respiratory Diseases for As we enter the fall and winter respiratory illness season, we are Community Practices seeing COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations starting to increaseand other respiratory illnesses, including influenza and RSV, are expected to increase in th. [...] If a patient enters your clinic Physicians “What if a patient wearing a mask, consider reciprocal mask-wearing to respect and refuses to wear a mask” for acknowledge their concerns and communicate your solidarity with options on how to proceed. [...] Active Screening Passive Screening Staff Screening Screen patients for signs and Use signage at office/clinic Ask all staff to self-monitor symptoms of infectious and building entrance and for signs and symptoms of respiratory diseases to guide ask staff, patients, and infectious respiratory care decisions as well as in- visitors to self-identify, if ill, diseases. [...] PPE Direct care/within 2 meters of Care of patients with no signs or patients with signs and symptoms of symptoms of infectious respiratory infectious respiratory diseases: diseases: Require symptomatic patient & any Follow your clinic’s masking policy. [...] Seat patients with signs and symptoms of infectious respiratory diseases apart from other patients and require them, and any accompanying caregivers, to wear a medical mask.