• S62–Strategies to Prevent Transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in AcuteCare Hospitals

Purpose

Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive recommendations for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Our intent in this document is to highlight practical recommendations in a concise format to assist acute care hospitals in their efforts to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Refer to the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Infectious Diseases Society of America “Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections” Executive Summary, Introduction, and accompanying editorial for additional discussion.

Citation

David P. Calfee, MD, MS;

Cassandra D. Salgado, MD, MS;

David Classen, MD, MS;

Kathleen M. Arias, MS, CIC;

Kelly Podgorny, RN, MS, CPHQ;

Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH;

Helen Burstin, MD;

Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH;

Erik R. Dubberke, MD;

Victoria Fraser, MD;

Dale N. Gerding, MD;

Frances A. Griffin, RRT, MPA;

Peter Gross, MD;

Keith S. Kaye, MD;

Michael Klompas, MD;

Evelyn Lo, MD;

Jonas Marschall, MD;

Leonard A. Mermel, DO, ScM;

Lindsay Nicolle, MD;

David A. Pegues, MD;

Trish M. Perl, MD;

Sanjay Saint, MD;

Robert A. Weinstein, MD;

Robert Wise, MD;

Deborah S. Yokoe, MD, MPH

From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York (D.P.C.); the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (C.D.S.); the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (D.C.); the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (K.M.A.) and the National Quality Forum (H.B.), Washington, D.C.; the Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace (K.P., R.W.), the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (D.N.G.) and the Stroger (Cook County) Hospital and Rush University Medical Center (R.A.W.), Chicago, and the Hines Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hines (D.N.G.), Illinois; the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (D.J.A., K.S.K.); the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (S.E.C.); the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (E.R.D., V.F., J.M.); the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge (F.A.G.), and Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (D.S.Y., M.K.), Massachusetts; the Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack (P.G.), and the University of Medicine and Dentistry–New Jersey Medical School, Newark (P.G.), New Jersey; the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island (L.A.M.); the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (D.A.P.); the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and University, Baltimore, Maryland (T.M.P.); the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan (S.S.); and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (E.L., L.N.).