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Special Report - Special Report - October 25, 2012
Hospitals' infection testing practices vary a lot, study shows
About 40 percent say they don't screen routinely for MRSA, similar organisms

Newswise

Screening practices for multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in intensive care units vary widely from hospital to hospital, says a new study by researchers at Columbia University School of Nursing and published in the October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.

Researchers found that of the hospitals surveyed, more than half (59 percent) routinely screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aurea, or MRSA. Other potentially deadly MDROs were screened for...


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