Figuring out a way to help contain MRSA has been a vexing problem for ... of patients who followed a strict decolonization protocol to a control group, in order to address this important health ...

He noted that the protocol for preventing and treating MRSA includes proper patient screening ... in implementing macro-level changes, but for control; but it will not change much for a single ...

While infection control has always been a crucial ... Once leadership understood the importance of rethinking our MRSA surgical-site infection protocols, we needed a plan that would show the ...

Universal screening for MRSA is not the standard of care. A recent study comparing eradication protocols for MRSA and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus found no difference in colonization or ...

protocols, and training in good prescribing practice, as well as in all other aspects of infection prevention and control. Sustaining the MRSA bacteraemia reductions, and reducing other HCAI ...

Breaches of infection control protocol may have contributed to three patients who were infected with MRSA after receiving epidural shots at a West Virginia outpatient pain clinic, according to a ...

There were two MRSA control strategies ... different surgical specialties were enrolled according to a pre-specified protocol, assigned to either the control (n = 10,910) or intervention (n ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus control in the long term is feasible when a bundle ... of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections from 1,204 patients. MRSA accounted for 34 episodes.

These findings have implications not only regarding protocols for the control of MRSA but also for the need for transformation of our healthcare system in the private sector.” ...

In the per-protocol population, MRSA infection occurred in 98 of 1063 ... infection was based on criteria of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Information regarding infection ...

The screening protocol and other measures instituted ... and a strong argument for delaying the transplant and attempting MRSA eradication should be put forward. Five patients receiving allogeneic ...