id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_3twn2dqqufayzfa5cydn7xwjmm Rekha Murthy Animals in Healthcare Facilities: Recommendations to Minimize Potential Risks 2015.0 22 .pdf application/pdf 17153 1662 52 including service animals to assist in patient therapy and and control measures to prevent animal-to-human transmission in healthcare settings. and evidence for animal-to-human transmission of pathogens in the healthcare setting, along with the potential Patients in healthcare facilities come into contact with animals for 2 main reasons: the use of animals for animal-assisted policies defined an animal-assisted activities animal as a personal pet that, with its owner or handler, provides comfort to Not all responding healthcare facilities with animal programs had formal policies. 3. Animal-assisted activities that include programs for visitation in hospitals that use specially trained animals and their F. Require that every animal-assisted activities handler participate in a formal training program and provide a certificate confirming the training, which includes modules on The policy should address a service animal's accompanying a healthcare facility visitor to a patient room and B. Service animals are not allowed to visit other patients' ./cache/work_3twn2dqqufayzfa5cydn7xwjmm.pdf ./txt/work_3twn2dqqufayzfa5cydn7xwjmm.txt