Transmission-Based Precautions, safeguards designed for patients documented or suspected to be infected with highly transmissible or epidemiologically important pathogens for which additional precautions beyond Standard Precautions are needed to interrupt transmission in hospitals. There are three types of transmission-based precautions: Airborne Precautions, Droplet Precautions, and Contact Precautions. They may be combined for diseases that have multiple routes of transmission. They are to be used either singularly or in combination, in addition to Standard Precautions. See also Airborne Precautions, Contact Precautions, Droplet Precautions, Standard Precautions.
