id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-318282-ocgfgx9r Boyce, John M Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 2005-10-31 .txt text/plain 8583 424 45 Measures recommended by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America for controlling health-care-associated MRSA include the use of screening cultures to detect colonised patients, placing patients in private rooms or cohorting patients, wearing gloves for room entry, gowns for substantial contact with patients or their environment, and hand hygiene before and after patient contact. Further studies are necessary to establish the relative efficacy of control measures such as screening cultures, cohort nursing, increased staffing levels, and improved hand hygiene adherence rates in controlling transmission of MRSA in health-care facilities. Revised guidelines for the control of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitals Comparison of community-and health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection Epidemiology of emerging methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark: a nationwide study in a country with low prevalence of MRSA infection Effectiveness of a hospitalwide selective screening programme for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers at hospital admission to prevent hospital-acquired MRSA infections ./cache/cord-318282-ocgfgx9r.txt ./txt/cord-318282-ocgfgx9r.txt