Screening for MRSA: a flawed hospital infection control intervention
R. Wenzel, G. Bearman, und M. Edmond. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: The Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America, 29 (11):
1012--1018(November 2008)PMID: 18937571.
DOI: 10.1086/593120
Zusammenfassung
Focusing hospital resources on a single antibiotic-resistant pathogen as a sole approach to infection control is inherently flawed. We applied attributable mortality principles to a basic model of bloodstream infections to outline the argument. Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alone made sense in the 1980s, but the ongoing emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and antibiotic-resistant strains of gram-negative rods and Candida species, as well as the recognition of the value of team-based infection control programs, support a population-based approach.
%0 Journal Article
%1 wenzel_screening_2008
%A Wenzel, Richard P
%A Bearman, Gonzalo
%A Edmond, Michael B
%D 2008
%J Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: The Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
%K Control, Cross Hospitals, Humans, Infection Infection, Infections, Methicillin Resistance Resistance, Staphylococcal Staphylococcus States, United Vancomycin aureus, {Methicillin-Resistant}
%N 11
%P 1012--1018
%R 10.1086/593120
%T Screening for MRSA: a flawed hospital infection control intervention
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18937571
%V 29
%X Focusing hospital resources on a single antibiotic-resistant pathogen as a sole approach to infection control is inherently flawed. We applied attributable mortality principles to a basic model of bloodstream infections to outline the argument. Screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alone made sense in the 1980s, but the ongoing emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and antibiotic-resistant strains of gram-negative rods and Candida species, as well as the recognition of the value of team-based infection control programs, support a population-based approach.
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