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 ...
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] ...
September 13, 2009 (San Francisco, California) — Universal screening using rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) in hospitals appears to ...
New findings do not support the recommendation for universal screening on hospital admission for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections ...
The message from Washington physicians to state legislators could not be more blunt: Go away. The Washington State Medical Association, which represents more than 9,000 physicians, is fighting a bill ...
Even though many consider universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections as a best practice for preventing the spread of the antibiotic-resistant infection, screening ...
A new study suggests that to reduce infection rates, it's important to carefully screen healthcare workers for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in addition to taking other steps. The ...
Researchers searched the PubMed and Embase databases from inception to November 2016 for studies evaluating MRSA nasal screening and development of MRSA pneumonia. They selected 22 studies with 5,163 ...
Universal MRSA screening and isolation of high-risk patients will help prevent MRSA infections but may be too economically burdensome for an individual hospital to adopt, researchers find. Numerous ...
Screening patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) produces cost savings for the whole hospital, according to a study that used a statistical ...
The medical community is united in its concern over the rapid spread of drug resistant staph bacteria in hospitals. But it’s divided over what to do. Some experts believe hospitals need to test large ...
Washington hospitals must screen high-risk patients for a potentially deadly germ called MRSA under a proposed law that passed the state Senate unanimously on Monday and now awaits the governor’s ...
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