Are your patients bringing MRSA home?
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, August 12, 2009
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Researchers from the Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris estimate that more than 12% of people discharged from a hospital into home health care are infected with MRSA, and about 20% of them may transmit the organism to others in their household, according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The study screened 1,501 hospitalized adults for MRSA before they were discharged and found 191 were infected. Over the course of a year those found to be infected and other people in their households were checked for MRSA every three months, according to HealthDay News.
Researchers noted that MRSA transmission is most likely among people who are at high risk for hand contamination while caring for people and advise those caregivers to apply infection control measures similar to the hospital setting.
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