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"...contact precautions for MRSA and VRE can be removed with good horizontal infection prevention measures without an increase in health care-associated infections (HAIs)."

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Discontinuing contact precautions for MRSA, VRE did not increase HAI rates, study finds Discontinuing contact precautions for MRSA and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus did not lead to an increase in hospital-associated infections in a Pennsylvania hospital system, according to a study. “Although MRSA and VRE contact precautions are common in U.S. hospitals, some hospitals have b...

1️⃣ "Minimize the use of 100% polyester in healthcare settings to curb the transfer load of bacteria from one surface to another"
2️⃣ Maximize the use of SilvaClean to do the same!

Transfer of bacteria between fabric and surrogate skin Hospital surfaces in the vicinity of infected patients get contaminated by microbes shed by them, and eventually get colonized and transfer the microbes to other surfaces and humans they come in contact with.1 Survival and transmission of microbes to and from hard inanimate surfaces in hospital envi...