期刊
JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION
卷 88, 期 4, 页码 230-233出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.09.011
关键词
VRE; MRSA; Surveillance; Carriage; Clearance; Contact precautions; Isolation
资金
- Saudi Ministry of Higher Education
- Research Early Career Award from Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation (Jack Hirsh Fellowship)
This article reports the impact of an active surveillance policy to identify clearance of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in known colonized inpatients with prolonged admissions in order to discontinue isolation precautions. Amongst 365 colonized patients with hospital admissions exceeding 30 days, clearance rates of 11% for MRSA and 18% for VRE were found after a median of 23 days and 26.5 days, respectively, resulting in a saving of 2152 patient-days of contact precautions over one year. This has proven to be a cost-beneficial policy. (C) 2014 The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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