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Research type:

 Secondary Research (e.g. systematic review) 

Title (lead author) etc:

 Systematic review of isolation policies in the hospital management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a review of the literature with epidemiological and economic modelling  (Stone) 194 pages, Volume 7, number 39

DOI

 10.3310/hta7390
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Outputs in journals arising from this project

Project ref:

 97/07/01 

Original project title:

 Systematic review of isolation policies and screening practices in methicillin-resistant S. aureus management (SRIS) 

Chief Investigator:

 Dr Sheldon Stone, Senior Lecturer, Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Free and University College School of Medicine

Start Date:

 May 2000  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

 November 2003

Cost:

 £100,623 

MeSH* index primary terms:

 MASS-SCREENING Q-methods; METHICILLIN-RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL-INFECTIONS Q-prevention-&-control (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

 HUMAN; MODELS-BIOLOGICAL  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

NRR* number, if applicable:

 N0484070428 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.

Project Protocol:

 Project protocol not available

Printed copies of this title despatched:

 176 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

Downloads/Views of electronic version from website:

 113669 (Figures are cumulative.) Last updated 27th July 2010.

URL of this page:

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Outputs from this project

  • Stone, SP; Beric, V; Quick, A; Ballastrini, AA; Kibbler, C. The effect of an enhanced infection control policy on the incidence of clostridium difficile (CDI) and methicillin resistant staphylcoccus aureus colonisation on acute elderly medical patients. Age Ageing 1998: 27; 561-8.
  • Stone, S; Kibbler, C; How, A; Ballastrini, AA. Feedback is necessary in strategies to reduce hospital acquired infection. Br Med J 2000; 321: 302-3.
  • Feather, AR; Stone, SP; Wessier, A; Bouriscot, KA; Pratt, CFW. "Now please wash your hands": handwashing behaviour of final MBBS candidates. J Hospital Infection 200; 44; 62-4.
  • Trazi, S; Kennedy, P; Stone, S; Evans, M. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a physocological impact of hospitalisation and isolation in an older adult population. J Hospital Infection 2001 49: 250-4.
  • Stone, SP. Hand hygiene - the case for evidence based education. J Roy Soc Med 2001; 94: 278-81.
  • Stone, SP; Teare, L; Cookson, BD. The guiding hand of our teachers (the evidence base for hand-hygiene). Lancet 2001; 357: 479-80.
  • Kunori, T; Cookson, B; Roberts, JA; Stone, S; Kibbler, C. Cost-effectiveness of different MRSA screening methods. J Hospital infection 2002; 51: 189-200.
  • Maudsley, J; Stone, SP; Kibbler, CC; Iliffe, SR; Connaty, SJ; Cookson, BD; Duckworth, GJ; Johnson, A; Wallace, PG. The community prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in older people living in their own homes: implications for treatment, screening and surveillance. J Hospital Infection 2004; 57: 258-262.
  • Cooper, BS; Medly, GF; Cookson, B; Duckworth, G; Kibbler, CC; Roberts, JA; Ebrahim, S; Stone, S. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals and the community: Stealth dynamics and control catastrophes. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 2004; 101: 10223-10228.
  • Cooper, BS; Stone, SP; Kibbler, SP; Cookson, BD; Robers, JA; Medley, GF; Duckworth, G; Lai, R; Ebrahim, S. Isolation measures in the hospital management of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): systematic review of the literature. BMJ Vol 329 No 7465 533-538 4 September 2004.
  • Hunt, DCE; Stone, SP; Dacre, J. Hand-hygiene behaviour, attitudes and beliefs in first year clinical medical students. Journal Hospital Infection 2005; 59: 371-3.
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