Active Screening in High-Risk Units Is an Effective and Cost-Avoidant Method to Reduce the Rate of Methicillin-Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>Infection in the Hospital

Abstract

Even in a setting of increasing community-associated MRSA, active MRSA screening as part of a multi-factorial intervention targeted to high-risk units may be an effective and cost-avoidant strategy for achieving a sustained decrease of MRSA infections throughout the hospital.