title: Clinical- and cost-ineffectiveness of targeted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening of high-risk patients admitted to a low-prevalence teaching hospital.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Infection Control Section, and Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY; School of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY. Electronic address: bacunha@winthrop.org.
authors.forename: Burke A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Cunha
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schoch
authors.forename: Eileen D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Abruzzo
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000191:economics* / Q000382:microbiology