Mom MD: What is a “hospitalist physician”? Are you an Infectious Disease MD? Just asking.
democratsaremyenemy: Better check your sources.
cherry: >>”.....please point to one case where anybody contracted MRSA from someone’s uniform....”<<
From the link below:
“The study found about 85 percent of all invasive MRSA infections were associated with health care settings, of which two-thirds surfaced in the community among people who were hospitalized, underwent a medical procedure or resided in a long-term care facility within the previous year. In contrast, about 15 percent of reported infections were considered to be community-associated, which means that the infection occurred in people without documented health care risk factors.”
“About 1 out every 12 deaths during hospitalization with a serious MRSA disease occurs in persons admitted for community-associated MRSA infection, the remaining 11 of every 12 deaths are associated with MRSA related to healthcare exposures;..”
“Do not share personal items. Avoid sharing personal items such as towels, washcloths, razors, CLOTHING, or UNIFORMS that may have had contact with the infected wound or bandage. Wash sheets, towels, and clothes that become soiled with water and laundry detergent. Drying clothes in a hot dryer, rather than air-drying, also helps kill bacteria in CLOTHES.”
From your link...Universal precaution's are standard.
But, that being said....plain ol' simple hand washing...remains the NUMBER ONE preventive procedure to stop the spread of MRSA.
And I will repeat that clothing, linens, gowns, equipment...are not generally implicated as a vector in the spread of MRSA.
fwiw-