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Hospital Parting Gifts? MRSA and a $60k tab…

December 21st, 2009. By AbiK

A lot of websites have an “editorial calendar” that they try to stick to. But when you’re site also relies on the news-of-the-minute, well, coincidences occur—and one just happened at LawyersAndSettlements.com. Earlier today, we published an interview Jane did with an MRSA victim, David. No sooner had I read the interview, and right there in my inbox were the results of a study on post-surgery MRSA infection and its associated costs. (And David may have gotten off cheap, believe it or not).

It seems, according to the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, Duke University Medical Center conducted a study that examined the 90-day post-operative outcomes of 659 patients whose incisions had either become infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). Some of the 659 patients had no infection.

Here’s what they found… Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Hospital Infection, MRSA, MSSA
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