Implementation of MRSA Infection Prevention and Control Measures – What Works in Practice?

Abstract

There have been increasing numbers of media reports about careless behaviour by healthcare workers, mainly involving insufficient cleaning practices and the absence of hand hygiene measures (Boyce, 2009). Although adherence to infection prevention and control measures has received a lot of attention in the media and in scientific literature, surprisingly little attention has been given to the implementation of the infection prevention and control strategies in healthcare practices. In the medical literature the focus is on the availability of national or regional MRSA surveillance data and guidelines for prevention and control. To date hardly any data has been made available about the kinds of interventions that have been successful in implementing infection prevention and control.