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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18e
7/22/2011: The Utility of Universal Screening for MRSA Remains Unclear
Neeraj K. Surana
M.D., Ph.D., Fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
Dennis L. Kasper
M.D., William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Director, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Excerpt:"The Institute of Medicine's seminal report To Err is Human suggests that nearly 100,000 patients die in hospitals annually as a result of preventable medical errors. Health care-associated infections are an important component of preventable errors, particularly nosocomial infections with antibiotic-resistant organisms. Two recently published clinical studies examine interventions for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission...."
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