Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening as a patient safety initiative: using patients' experiences to improve the quality of screening practices

K Currie, C Knussen, L Price… - Journal of clinical nursing, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… With regard to the provision of information about the results of screening, a large proportion
(n = 44, 81·5% of the sample) indicated that they had not been told of the result of the …

Active screening in high-risk units is an effective and cost-avoidant method to reduce the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in the hospital

M Clancy, A Graepler, M Wilson, I Douglas… - Infection Control & …, 2006 - cambridge.org
screening of ICU patients for MRSA. The postintervention period was defined as April 1, 2003,
through June 30, 2004, when swab samples … Nursing staff performed initial screening for …

[HTML][HTML] … cavity revealed as a significant reservoir of Staphylococcus aureus in an acute hospital by extensive patient, healthcare worker and environmental sampling

A Kearney, P Kinnevey, A Shore, M Earls… - Journal of Hospital …, 2020 - Elsevier
… We also believed that the results would inform future policy on the screening patients and
HCWs, and on the sampling environmental sites for the presence of MSSA and MRSA. …

Performance of a New Chromogenic Medium, BBL CHROMagar MRSA II (BD), for Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Screening Samples

K Van Vaerenbergh, R Cartuyvels… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
… on both media in a few samples. We did not study the … II for MRSA detection in screening
samples. We prospectively … of MRSA in screening samples after nonselective enrichment. …

Assessment of the influence of test characteristics on the clinical and cost impacts of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening programs in US hospitals

N Olchanski, C Mathews, L Fusfeld… - Infection Control & …, 2011 - cambridge.org
sample collection and implementation of isolation precaution measures, (ie, time between
sample … Budget impact analysis of rapid screening for Staphylococcus aureus colonization …

Development and evaluation of a PCR-based immunoassay for the rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

KJ Towner, DCS Talbot, R Curran… - Journal of medical …, 1998 - microbiologyresearch.org
… , in comparison with conventional bacteriological techniques, for the detection of MRSA
in screening samples obtained routinely from patients for hospital infection control purposes. …

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Screening by Online Immunometric Monitoring of Bacterial Growth under Selective Pressure

…, AJ Hakanen, J Vaarno, S Pihlasalo… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
… before the identification of Staphylococcus aureus and testing for … As the first example of a
rapid nonmolecular MRSA screeningscreening for MRSA, specimens such as nasal samples

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: evaluation of detection techniques on laboratory-passaged organisms

DP Brayshaw - British Journal of Biomedical Science, 1999 - search.proquest.com
… majority of laboratories during;r routine screening of samples for MRSA. Several … samples
to a solid culture medium which may be selective and/or differential. Broth enrichment alloyy s

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of conventional and molecular features of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bovine milk samples and contact dairy workers

AAAA All, MM Bashandy, MH Yasin… - Global Veterinaria, 2010 - researchgate.net
… Isolated Staphylococcus aureus strains were examined for coagulase slide test, Catalase
and DNAase test. Staphylococcus aureus … On screening milk samples described in Table 2, …

Prospective study of infection, colonization and carriage of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus in an outbreak affecting 990 patients

R Coello, J Jiménez, M García, P Arroyo… - European Journal of …, 1994 - Springer
… We screened five different carriage sites in 181 noninfected asymptomatic carriers. The …
screening specimens, we have decided from our results to screen nose and perineum Samples, …