A recent study demonstrated that health care personnel compliance with MRSA precautions is low (Afif et al., 2002). MRSA precautions include use of gloves, gowns, and scrupulous hand hygiene for ...

One significant study examined the necessity of contact precautions for MRSA in acute care facilities. The authors argued that the current evidence does not support the broad application of CP as ...

Although standard precautions do not require gloves for contact with intact skin, our skin is rarely 100% intact, and many infectious pathogens, such as MRSA, can live on the surface of intact skin.

This guide will explain what MRSA is; how you get it; if it's contagious; and its main symptoms, precautions and causes. Learn about treatment options, how serious the infection is and what living ...

Another change in the guidelines regards contact precautions, which involve the use of gloves and gowns when providing care for MRSA-colonized or MRSA-infected patients. While contact precautions are ...

As a result, Bearman explained, it's challenging to provide definitive answers as to when it's safe to end contact precautions. For example, while evidence indicates that most patients will remain ...

It is important if you have had or are experiencing an infection, such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), to tell us when you are ... In some situations, we use additional ...

The most cost-effective strategies to control MRSA spread in NICUs are still the subject of debate, but surveillance is consistently accepted as an indispensable tool to customize them and to ...