(MRSA): “missing the wood for the trees”

MRSA is found very where in health care environment including neck ties, steths nad ID badges. While it is helpful to know all the places we may find MRSA, these types of studies really just confirm what should be blindingly obvious — that MRSA readily disseminates within our health care environment. Thus, the hands of health care workers will frequently come into contact with MRSA.

The real issue with the control of MRSA is not the need for more information on environmental contamination, but the need to use the abundant information we already have to curtail the principal way that MRSA spreads in hospitals — via the hands of health care workers, that's us. Read this editorial and there is an interesting comment too...