Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: Position statement from the joint SHEA and APIC task force

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-260

  Weber, Stephen G ^a,h   Huang, Susan S ^b   Oriola, Shannon ^b   Huskins, W Charles ^c   Noskin, Gary A ^b   Harriman, Kathleen ^d   Olmsted, Russell N ^b   Bonten, Marc ^g   Lundstrom, Tammy ^e   Climo, Michael W ^b   Roghmann, Mary Claire ^f   Murphy, Cathryn L ^b   Karchmer, Tobi B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus ^*

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d Minnesota Department of Public Health   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LAW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33947575125     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512261     Document Type: Review

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