Occurrence of and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a teaching hospital in Philadelphia

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• 作者：Sheldon Gomes ; MD ; Sohail Altafi ; MD ; Kristine M. Garcia ; BSN ; RN ; Christopher L. Emery ; MD ; Richard Hamilton ; MD ; Ari D. Brooks ; MD ; Suresh G. Joshi ; MD ; PhD ; ^{suresh.joshi@drexelmed.edu}
• 关键词：Inducible clindamycin resistance ; MRSA ; Multi-drug resistance ; Risk factor ; Surgical site infection
• 刊名：American Journal of Infection Control
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：40
• 期：4
• 页码：381-383
• 全文大小：230 K

文摘

Manual medical record mining and data analysis were performed at a tertiary care university teaching hospital to establish the rate of occurrence of and risk factors for infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Patients with surgical site infections had the highest rate of MRSA infection, representing 59 % of the MRSA infections recorded. The mortality rate in patients with relapsed MRSA was 45 % (13 of 30), compared with no deaths in 149 new MRSA cases. The majority of deaths in patients with relapsed MRSA occurred in the intensive care unit.