Cited 34 times since 2012 (2.5 per year) source: EuropePMC Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Volume 54, Issue 11, 4 1 2012, Pages 1618-1620 Successful Veterans Affairs initiative to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections revisited. Gurieva T, Bootsma MC, Bonten MJ
In 2011 Jain et al reported a 62% reduction of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections that resulted from an intervention bundle. Here we present a mathematical model and prove, using parameters from the study by Jain et al, that the universal screen and isolate strategy can have contributed only marginally to the reduction in infections.
