When should contact precautions be discontinued for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

Autor:	Lauren E Richey, Yumi Oh, Djeunou Tchamba, Cassandra D. Salgado, Linda Formby, Michelle Engle
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Male Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Epidemiology 030501 epidemiology medicine.disease_cause Staphylococcal infections 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine mental disorders Humans Medicine Infection control Prospective Studies 030212 general & internal medicine Prospective cohort study Intensive care medicine business.industry Health Policy Carrier state Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Staphylococcal Infections biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infectious Diseases Contact precautions Staphylococcus aureus Carrier State Female 0305 other medical science business
Zdroj:	American Journal of Infection Control. 45:75-76
ISSN:	0196-6553
DOI:	10.1016/j.ajic.2016.05.030
Popis:	When to discontinue contact precautions for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) remains unresolved and policies vary between hospitals. We prospectively performed admission active surveillance cultures on patients known to have been MRSA positive for at least 1 year to determine the proportion who remained positive. The proportion of patients with MRSA who remained positive was 19.9%; however, this significantly decreased over time, particularly after 5 years.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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