MRSA Notes

I have seen this bit of news several times over the last week, and it really makes me wonder if the attorneys of the hospitals are recommending studies like this be done and published as a…well, just to start covering their behinds.

Patients ‘bringing MRSA into hospital’

A short excerpt:

The study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), showed that 25 per cent of MRSA patients were already infected with the superbug when they arrived at hospital.

Most of the cases were found in older people who had previously been hospitalised, implying that they had been infected in the past and the bug was only detected when the patient returned to hospital.

The University of Oxford researchers who carried out the study said there needed to be more research into the best way of identifying patients who already have MRSA when they are admitted.

“Ensuring that patients presenting with MRSA bacteraemia are recognised and receive appropriate therapy is essential, given the high mortality associated with the disease,” they said.

Rates of the MRSA superbug have soared in the last decade, with hospital cleanliness largely blamed for helping infection to spread.

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