A longitudinal index of multidrug-resistant organisms at an academic medical center reveals true declines in incidence.
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results are shown in Figure 1 of our article. Notably, of the MRSA-associated hospital discharges identified in UHC data, the percentage that did not include a MRSA infection decreased from 28% in 2004-2005 to 21% in 2006 and 19% in 2007. Thus, we did not see at our center an increase in the number of false-positive UHC-coded MRSA hospital discharges during 2004-2007, suggesting that the increase that we detected in the burden of MRSA-associated hospital discharges was not due to an increase in miscoding of asymptomatically colonized inpatients as having had MRSA infections, as Lewis and colleagues posit. Thus, if one accounts for all clinical MRSA infections— both invasive and noninvasive—among hospitalized patients at US academic medical centers during 2003-2008, an increase in the number per 1,000 hospital discharges did occur. Further research is needed to determine changes in this trend after 2008.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
دوره 34 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013