Impact of routine surgical ward and intensive care unit admission surveillance cultures on hospital-wide nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in a university hospital: an interrupted time-series analysis | Zendy

Iris F. Chaberny | Zendy; F. Schwab | Zendy; Stefan Ziesing | Zendy; Sebastian Suerbaum | Zendy; Petra Gastmeier | Zendy

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Impact of routine surgical ward and intensive care unit admission surveillance cultures on hospital-wide nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in a university hospital: an interrupted time-series analysis

Author(s) -

Iris F. Chaberny,

F. Schwab,

Stefan Ziesing,

Sebastian Suerbaum,

Petra Gastmeier

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkn373

Subject(s) - medicine , interrupted time series analysis , incidence (geometry) , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , intensive care unit , staphylococcus aureus , intensive care , confidence interval , emergency medicine , staphylococcal infections , intensive care medicine , statistics , physics , mathematics , biology , bacteria , optics , genetics

To determine whether a routine admission screening in surgical wards and intensive care units (ICUs) was effective in reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections-particularly nosocomial MRSA infections-for the whole hospital.

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