Maybe medical professionals shouldn’t be shopping and everything else in their scrubs! Try going to the supermarket with out seeing 10 people dressed in scrubs.
Superbug: What makes one bacterium so deadly
A more virulent version of MRSA is in the community already. AIDS is fairly well controlled by the newer drugs.
MDR Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumanni complex was an issue for the wounded in Iraq.
All hospitals need more extensive containment training for scrub and OR techs. Patient visitation, as cruel as it sounds, needs to be restricted. Spider bites, as odd as it sounds is also suspect in some cases I have researched.
Hospitals with good infection control programs know about all (95+%) of their infections. Hospitals with poor infection control programs either don't know about them, or don't count them properly.
Hence, excellent programs will always report more infections to the state than poor ones.
This is already well-documented in Pennsylvania, which has been on thos idiotic crusade for 3 years.
In PA, there is NO CORRELATION between infections reported to the state and infections billed to Medicare. Some hospitals report every infection they have billed to Medicare, some report no infections that they have billed to Medicare, and many hospitals bill for many infections which they have not reported to the state.
WIthout enforcement, which would be amazingly expensive and has no possibility of happening, this is just another boondoggle.
When this is explained to the people who write these laws, they say, "Well, we have to do something. We'll just get the information (the corrupted, meaningless data) out there, and let the public decide".
MRSA is more prevalent in the outside world than it is in Hospitals....usually it is brought into the hospital by the patienr.