Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria that causes an infection that may be resistant to many antibiotics. There are precautions you can take to avoid contracting ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

What Benefit Are Contact Precautions? Breaking news: Healthcare workers do not like contact precautions, and high-quality data to support contact precautions for endemic methicillin-resistant ...

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Stopping contact precautions for MRSA and ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

In a recent review published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a group of authors critically assessed the designation of contact precautions (CP) as an "essential practice" for methicillin-resistant ...

With the evident burden of contact isolation precautions (CP) on quality of care and costs, the use of antiseptic nasal decolonization to help reduce CP can be significant. Research shows universal ...

MRSA has become a commonly encountered pathogen in the clinical setting. It causes severe morbidity and mortality worldwide, with death rates in patients with MRSA infection ranging from 20% to 50% ...

Background. There have been no randomized controlled trials comparing active and passive screening for documenting clearance of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We ...