We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Discontinuing contact precautions at three pediatric ...

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

In a recent review published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a group of authors critically assessed the designation of contact precautions (CP) as an "essential practice" for methicillin-resistant ...

What Benefit Are Contact Precautions? Breaking news: Healthcare workers do not like contact precautions, and high-quality data to support contact precautions for endemic methicillin-resistant ...

With the evident burden of contact isolation precautions (CP) on quality of care and costs, the use of antiseptic nasal decolonization to help reduce CP can be significant. Research shows universal ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A friend and her kids are carriers for MRSA. Could you please give advice for us on how to stay healthy when you know you will be in contact with a MRSA carrier? — I.R. Advertisement ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control questions whether contact precaution protocols effectively decrease the risk of healthcare-associated infections such as MRSA. For their ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Although contact precautions are necessary in some circumstances, some infection prevention specialists and healthcare providers believe there are limitations to the contact precautions approach and ...

A group of five medical organizations have released updated recommendations for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, transmission and infection. MRSA causes ...