Opinion piece spells out how Florida can fight superbugs even as tourist hub
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, April 8, 2009
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An opinion piece in the St. Petersburg Times by David Smith, PhD and Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH, says that although Florida's hospitals have taken a vital first step in preventing the spread of superbugs like MRSA, they can do more as a tourist hub. Currently hospitals do a good job of reporting patients who have come down with an infection as required by the state; however, the authors think that hospitals could do a better job of flagging those patients who have come down with an infection and affect the national spread of such superbugs. Many tourists contract such superbugs while they are in Florida, and consequently bring them back to their home states.
The authors suggest that any funds for infection control are spent on coordinating care among many facilities, rather than prevention at one facility. Controlling the spread of these superbugs is one area where Florida hospitals could affect the entire country.
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