Towards the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging

MRSA remains a scourge. Programs that effectively reduce the rate of MRSA infections in hospitals are well known, and some have been successfully implemented in Australia. For these to be effective, however, requires a culture change in the attitude of most Australian health care workers and a new era of government leadership in providing adequately resourced modern hospital facilities with infection control principles at the core of their design, not just added as an afterthought. A better understanding of MRSA and basic infection control issues is needed by the entire community (taxpayers, architects, engineers, health care workers, students, governments, administrators, and patients) if we are to ever finally control MRSA and other health care-associated pathogens.