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Article: Incorrect treatment provided to one in three patients with MRSA infections.(Infection control Update)
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- September 1, 2006
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Drug-resistant, hospital-acquired infections often are treated initially with ineffective antibiotics, which increases the risk of death, according to an article in the August issue of Critical Care Medicine, the journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
The researchers conducted a three-year retrospective study of 549 Barnes-Jewish Hospital patients with MRSA sterile-site infection to determine the rate of appropriate initial antimicrobial administration and to evaluate the influence of this treatment on outcome. They found that nearly one in three MRSA-infected initially received inappropriate treatment for MRSA infection, nearly doubling their risk of ...
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