Journal article
Screening for MRSA: a flawed hospital infection control intervention
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.29(11), pp.1012-1018
11/2008
DOI: 10.1086/593120
PMID: 18937571
Abstract
Focusing hospital resources on a single antibiotic-resistant pathogen as a sole approach to infection control is inherently flawed. We applied attributable mortality principles to a basic model of bloodstream infections to outline the argument. Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alone made sense in the 1980s, but the ongoing emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and antibiotic-resistant strains of gram-negative rods and Candida species, as well as the recognition of the value of team-based infection control programs, support a population-based approach.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Screening for MRSA: a flawed hospital infection control intervention
- Creators
- Richard P Wenzel - Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USAGonzalo BearmanMichael B Edmond
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.29(11), pp.1012-1018
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1086/593120
- PMID
- 18937571
- ISSN
- 0899-823X
- eISSN
- 1559-6834
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2008
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983905645102771
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