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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 for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus led to healthcare workers practicing better hand hygiene, a study has found. Researchers had “secret shoppers” look at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become the scourge of the practices of medicine and nursing, particularly in the hospital setting. Pharmacologic innovations can barely keep pace with the ...

A study, published in American Journal of Infection Control, examines the effect of discontinuing contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant ...

An increasing number of Americans are becoming familiar with the potentially deadly drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. According to the first ...

Precautions are being taken at Arlington High School after a case of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, was reported, Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Kathleen Bodie and ...

What should have been a three-day stay in the hospital for knee replacement surgery has turned into a battle with a deadly infection for Conroe resident Alexander Dublin. Dublin, 71, is recovering ...

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...