State health officials said they will start tracking MRSA hospital cases and will require hospitals to use federal guidelines in controlling the potentially fatal, drug-resistant bacteria. Speaking ...

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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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The hospital reduced rates of hospital-onset MRSA and hospital-onset MRSA bacteremia. The protocols were ...

Inclusion of 30-day post-discharge MRSA rates significantly changes rates of hospital-onset MRSA, which can alter hospital rankings, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital ...

A recent study suggests a MRSA outbreak at one hospital may affect other hospitals in the same region, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. For their study, ...

A group of five medical organizations have released updated recommendations for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, transmission and infection. MRSA causes ...

Although community-acquired cases of MRSA in children are on the rise, a new study shows encouraging news about MRSA in hospitals. Efforts to reduce the risk seem to be paying off. The most dangerous ...

The information in this article is from HCUPnet, an online query system that provides access to health statistics and information on hospital stays from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project ...

Hospitals that screen patients in the intensive care unit for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) help save the facility money, according to a study published in the February issue of ...

To Burton Davis, the surgery seemed nothing short of a miracle. The 58-year-old's curved spine had nagged him for the better part of two decades, putting constant pressure on his lower back and ...