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What is a hospital isolation room?
If your doctor wants you to be kept away, or isolated, from other patients while you receive medical care, you may be in a special hospital room. This is called an isolation room.
You may be isolated because you have an infection (often in the skin, lungs or airways, or intestines) that can be spread to others. Or your condition makes you more easily infected by others.
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