Healthcare personnel opinions regarding the feasibility of a risk-tailored approach to contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the acute care setting

Lyndsay M O'Hara; Anthony D Harris; David P Calfee; Graham M Snyder; James Cottam; Nathan N O'Hara; Elise M Martin

doi:10.1017/ice.2024.54

Healthcare personnel opinions regarding the feasibility of a risk-tailored approach to contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the acute care setting

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 22:1-3. doi: 10.1017/ice.2024.54. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Lyndsay M O'Hara¹, Anthony D Harris^{1

2}, David P Calfee³, Graham M Snyder⁴, James Cottam¹, Nathan N O'Hara¹, Elise M Martin⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Institute for Health Computing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

PMID: 38646712
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2024.54

Abstract

"All or none" approaches to the use of contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) both fail to recognize that transmission risk varies. This qualitative study assessed healthcare personnel perspectives regarding the feasibility of a risk-tailored approach to use contact precautions for MRSA more strategically in the acute care setting.