Review of a three-year meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening programme

Summary The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH) implemented a seek and destroy (S&D) programme in 2006 to minimise meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonisation and/or infection of patients. Using a phased introduction, all patient specialties were included...

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Published in:The Journal of hospital infection 2011-06, Vol.78 (2), p.81-85
Main Authors: Collins, J, Raza, M, Ford, M, Hall, L, Brydon, S, Gould, F.K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacterial diseases
Bacteriological Techniques
Biological and medical sciences
Carrier State - diagnosis
Carrier State - epidemiology
Carrier State - microbiology
Chromogenic Compounds
Culture Media
England
Hospitals, Teaching
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Infection Control - economics
Infection Control - methods
Infectious Disease
Infectious diseases
Mass Screening - economics
Mass Screening - methods
Medical sciences
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Nose - microbiology
Nose, throat and perineum
Perineum - microbiology
Pharynx - microbiology
Prevalence
Program Evaluation
Staphylococcal Infections - diagnosis
Staphylococcal Infections - epidemiology
Staphylococcal Infections - microbiology
Staphylococcal infections, streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections
Staphylococcus aureus
Targeted approach
Universal screening
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Summary:Summary The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH) implemented a seek and destroy (S&D) programme in 2006 to minimise meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonisation and/or infection of patients. Using a phased introduction, all patient specialties were included in the scheme by September 2008, well in advance of the mandatory Department of Health, England (DoH) requirement for all patients to be screened. NuTH screens nose, throat and perineum samples from approximately 15 000 patients per month using a chromogenic culture method, showing a mean MRSA prevalence of 2.4%. Provision of seven-day microbiology and infection control services ensured that the turnaround time to prescribing decolonisation therapy was
ISSN:0195-6701
1532-2939
DOI:10.1016/j.jhin.2011.02.012