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Overworked staff, crowding hamper MRSA reduction
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 27, 2008
Overworked doctors and nurses are less likely to wash their hands, hampering hospital efforts to control methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals, Australian researchers reported this week, according to HealthDay News.
Overcrowding also hurt efforts to reduce MRSA, the study found.
"Overcrowding and understaffing have had a negative effect on patient safety and quality of care, evidenced by the flourishing of healthcare-acquired MRSA infections in many countries, despite efforts to control and prevent these infections occurring,” researchers said in the study.
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