title: Preventing the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a tertiary care cancer center in Japan: quality improvement report.
abstract: Although methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is endemic in the majority of Japanese hospitals, national guidelines for the control and prevention of MRSA continue to be lacking. Also, the metrics to survey the incidence of MRSA transmission in health care facilities is not standardized. We improved MRSA control practices referring to the 2003 Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America guidelines and assessed the effect of multifaceted interventions by quasiexperimental analysis at a tertiary hospital in Japan.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Shizuoka Cancer Center Hospital, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, Japan. Electronic address: i.kawamura@scchr.jp.
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kawamura
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohmagari
authors.forename: Sachiyo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Tomoyo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: Hanako
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kurai
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D063128:Tertiary Health Care
keywords: Infection control; MRSA; Quasiexperimental study