“I think this shows that hospital-wide active surveillance is not necessary to show a big decrease in MRSA....It’s not the active surveillance itself that makes the difference. It’s what you do with the information that makes it important.”
Friday, March 27, 2009
Dr. Jernigan is making sense! And is positively deviant....
From a NY Times blogpost by Kevin Sack, regarding the recently presented (at the SHEA 19th Annual Scientific Meeting) CDC study about using a "positive deviance" approach to MRSA prevention:
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