Costs and Benefits Associated with the MRSA Search and Destroy Policy in a Hospital in the Region Kennemerland, The Netherlands.

OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to analyze the costs and benefits of the MRSA Search and Destroy (S&D) policy between 2008 and 2013 in the Kennemer Gasthuis, a 400 bed teaching hospital in the region Kennemerland, the Netherlands. METHODS:A patient registration database was used to ret...

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Main Authors: Dennis Souverein, Patricia Houtman, Sjoerd M Euser, Bjorn L Herpers, Jan Kluytmans, Jeroen W Den Boer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4744028?pdf=render