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Tip of the week: Start small in fight against MRSA
Infection Control Monitor, March 16, 2007
When it comes to reducing infections from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the key to a successful effort is to start small and expand slowly.
"One of the key things I would recommend is don't start hospitalwide-it's just too big, unless you're a small rural hospital with 25 beds," says Fran Griffin, director of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which is targeting MRSA as part its own new initiative, the 5 Million Lives campaign. If you start hospitalwide and the program has glitches, it will hurt the credibility of the organizing team.
Instead, if you start in one unit, the risk of failure is much smaller, and you have the opportunity to get it right in one place before you include the rest of the hospital.
To learn more about battling MRSA, go to www.hcpro.com/content/67646.cfm. The cost is $10. Briefings on Infection Control subscribers received this story with their subscriptions.
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