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poor accrual
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Inpatients will be prospectively have nares screened and MRSA strains collected. All clinical MRSA strains of patients will also be prospectively collected. A sensitive strain discrimination test of spa typing will be used to determine if the strains are related. Hypotheses are
Patients of special interest:
All strains will be saved and spa typed. Analysis of the data will be performed to answer the questions and hypotheses and to answer is the screening effort and the isolation of patients for MRSA as is in current practice worthwhile and is there any scientific data to support this practice
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hemodialysis | ||
| 2 | Intensive care | ||
| 3 | vascular patients with open wounds | ||
| 4 | nursing home | ||
| 5 | skin infections | ||
| 6 | control- ambulatory care clinic patients with no infections |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Percent of infection strains which were also colonizer earlier | 3 years |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Duration of strain colonization among co-morbidity cohorts | 3 years |
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all patients admited
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only bacterial strains collected