Alabama hospitals are able to put their fingers on where and when staph infections are, this way they can focus on the needed areas for screening, etc. and it's working...BD
Nobody had to tell MedMined that hospital-acquired staphylococcus aureus infections were growing increasingly drug resistant. The average decrease nationally in hospital-acquired infections in the first year of using MedMined is 10 percent, and Alabama's results have been even better, Stewart said.
Data the company collected last year show almost 70 percent of the hospital-acquired staph infections in Alabama's hospitals were not treatable by methicillin, once the front-line antibiotic for the illness.
Nobody had to tell MedMined that hospital-acquired staphylococcus aureus infections were growing increasingly drug resistant. Data the company collected last year show almost 70 percent of the hospital-acquired staph infections in Alabama's hospitals were not treatable by methicillin, once the front-line antibiotic for the illness.
"That would have been unheard of 30 years ago," said Dr. Stephen Brossette, one of the founders of MedMined.
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