Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...
Discontinuing contact precautions for MRSA and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus did not lead to an increase in hospital-associated infections in a Pennsylvania hospital system, according to a study. ...
What Benefit Are Contact Precautions? Breaking news: Healthcare workers do not like contact precautions, and high-quality data to support contact precautions for endemic methicillin-resistant ...
Contact precautions for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus led to healthcare workers practicing better hand hygiene, a study has found. Researchers had “secret shoppers” look at ...
Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...
During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...
A study, published in American Journal of Infection Control, examines the effect of discontinuing contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant ...
Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control questions whether contact precaution protocols effectively decrease the risk of healthcare-associated infections such as MRSA. For their ...
Background. There have been no randomized controlled trials comparing active and passive screening for documenting clearance of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We ...
An increasing number of Americans are becoming familiar with the potentially deadly drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. According to the first ...
MRSA has become a commonly encountered pathogen in the clinical setting. It causes severe morbidity and mortality worldwide, with death rates in patients with MRSA infection ranging from 20% to 50% ...
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 ...
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