ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2022
Reducing Staphylococcus aureus infections in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Epidemiology and Mortality of Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Hospitalized Infants.JAMA pediatrics · 2025Article
- Efficacy of Enhanced Environmental Cleaning/Disinfection Using Pulsed Xenon Ultraviolet Light in Preventing Outbreaks of Methicillin-ResistantEpidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Indian academy of pediatrics (neonatology chapter) recommendations for evidence-based neonatal skincare and protocols for hospitalized neonates.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
- Exonuclease-III Assisted the Target Recycling Coupling with Hybridization Chain Reaction for Sensitive mecA Gene Analysis by Using PGM.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2024Article
- A decade of neonatal sepsis in Stockholm, Sweden: Gram-positive pathogens were four times as common as Gram-negatives.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024Article
- Epidemiological and microbiological characteristics ofFrontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveOur neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) saw an increase in Staphylococcus aureus (SA) infections-methicillin-resistant SA (MRSA) infections increased from 2.1/10,000 patient days (PD) to 5.1/10,000 PD, and methicillin-sensitive SA (MSSA) infections from 1.2/10,000 PD to 3.9/10,000 PD. This quality improvement project aimed to decrease the rates of SA infections to less than 2.0/10,000 PD, and to determine the rate of SA decolonization.
methodsInfection prevention interventions targeted patient factors (SA surveillance, patient cohorting, decolonization protocol), provider factors (provider cohorting, enhanced hand hygiene) and environmental factors (room structure, equipment optimization).
resultsThe rates of MRSA and MSSA infections decreased to 0.6/10,000 PD and 0.7 infections/10,000 PD respectively. Persistent decolonization of SA was successful in 67% of colonized patients.
conclusionsSpecific interventions targeting patient, provider, and environmental factors, including the implementation of a SA decolonization protocol, were successful in decreasing the incidence of SA infections in neonates.
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