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“Bringing Down the Flag”: Removing the Contact Precautions Label for Non-hospitalized Patients with Prior Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection or Colonization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2015
Abstract
A policy consensus has not been reached regarding discontinuing contact precautions in patients with a history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We found that as many as 72% of outpatients flagged for past MRSA were no longer carriers, and a single nasal PCR test provided a reasonable negative predictive value for removing contact precautions.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;00(0): 1–3
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PRIOR PRESENTATION. Study results were presented at the annual American Public Health Association Meeting, November, 2014, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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