MRSA screening is a low risk procedure used to determine whether you have MRSA on your skin or a MRSA infection. Antibiotic treatments are available if you test positive. MRSA is a type of ...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) introduced its Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Prevention Initiative in March 2007. [1] Since then, an interrupted time-series analysis [2] ...
As the overprescribing of vancomycin can be challenging for antimicrobial stewardship, the study’s authors sought to determine whether screening patients for MRSA colonization prompted prolonged use ...
Polymerase chain reaction testing may be more clinically effective than chromogenic agar for MRSA screening, according to research published in BMC Infectious Diseases. For their study, researcher ...
This webinar explores the evolving role of MRSA surveillance in healthcare, highlighting how molecular screening methods ...
At the Louisville VA hospital%2C MRSA infections have fallen to 0.09 infections per 1%2C000 days patients stay in a bed%2C compared with 1.89 infections per 1%2C000 in 2008 Some non-VA hospitals rely ...
October 13, 2009 — Mandatory screening of all patients entering UK hospitals for colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is unjustified and unethical and should be ...
RICHMOND, Va. (Oct. 23, 2008) – Three Virginia Commonwealth University epidemiologists are downplaying the value of mandatory universal nasal screening of patients for MRSA, arguing that proven, ...
Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...
UK Guidance on MRSA screening requires that ‘high-risk’ children are screened on admission to hospital. We investigated the prevalence of MRSA in elective non-day case paediatric surgical admissions ...
Results from focus groups and questionnaires showed healthcare workers from Chicago-area hospitals generally exhibited positive perceptions toward legislation requiring MRSA screening, according to ...
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