Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change (letter)

Title: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change (letter)
Creator: Ferguson, John K.; Van Gessel, Helen
Relation: The Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 188, Issue 1, p. 61-64
Relation: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/188_01_070108/letters_070108_fm-4.html
Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: MRSA colonisation or infection needs to be made a nationally notifiable disease, with a system in place to enable typing of isolates. As in WA, such a system would enable more effective identification of MRSA carriers before hospital admission, the detection of emerging epidemic strains, and timely investigation of MRSA outbreaks occurring in community groups, such as in aged care facilities. Most importantly, all states and territories need to adopt, and provide resources for, consistent, stringent approaches to surveillance, prevention and control of health care-associated MRSA that are in keeping with internationally recommended approaches. Given the scale of preventable injury occurring in many states, MRSA control must be made one of the highest priorities for patient safety.
Subject: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; infection control; hospitals; patient safety
Identifier: uon:5313
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43186
Identifier: ISSN:0025-729X

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