The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Developed Standard Precautions

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed standard precautions using the assumption that:

A) outpatients are generally healthy enough, so no precautions need to be taken.
B) all patients are potentially infected or carriers of transmittable organisms, so appropriate precautions need to be followed.
C) only patients with coughs are potentially infected or carriers of transmittable organisms, so appropriate precautions are recommended only for these patients.
D) all hospitalized patients are considered healthy until blood culture results are available; precautions are recommended for those with positive results.