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| Briefings on Long-Term Care |
| July 2008 |
| Screening for MRSA: Looking beyond a universal approach |
| Is universal screening the answer to reducing Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections at your facility? Two new studies have offered very different conclusions on the subject.
The first study, "Universal Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus at Hospital Admission and Nosocomial Infection in Surgical Patients," published in the March 12 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that screening all patients when they were admitted to 12 surgical wards did not reduce MRSA infections. |
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