%0 Journal Article
%T When should contact precautions be discontinued for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?
%A Richey LE
%A Oh Y
%A Tchamba DM
%A Engle M
%A Formby LS
%A Salgado CD
%J Am J Infect Control
%V 45
%N 1
%D 01 2017 1
%M 27590111
%F 4.303
%R 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.05.030
%X When to discontinue contact precautions for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) remains unresolved and policies vary between hospitals. We prospectively performed admission active surveillance cultures on patients known to have been MRSA positive for at least 1 year to determine the proportion who remained positive. The proportion of patients with MRSA who remained positive was 19.9%; however, this significantly decreased over time, particularly after 5 years.