Expert Advisory: VCU Study Finds Simple Prevention Strategy Reduces MRSA Infections
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 11:02
in Health & Medicine
High compliance with hand hygiene and focusing on other simple infection control measures on medical, surgical and neuroscience intensive care units resulted in reduced rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection by 95 percent in a nine-year study, according to research findings by Virginia Commonwealth University physicians presented during IDWeek 2012.