The “Toolkit for ICU and Non-ICU Settings” is the first of three to be released by the agency. Toolkits for surgical services and long-term care settings will be published in 2025, according to the AHRQ website.
Here are four things to know about the MRSA toolkit:
- The toolkit focuses on four key prevention strategies: decolonizing patients, decontaminating the environment, preventing person-based transmission, and preventing device- and procedure-related infections.
- The toolkit is based on framework and concepts from the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program methodology.
- The toolkit comes with an implementation guide to help facilities develop MRSA prevention plans and put them into practice.
- MRSA is resistant to multiple antibiotics, highly invasive and deadly.
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