Like a recurrent bad dream for some, the discontinuation of contact precautions for the control of endemic MRSA and VRE is back in the medical literature. A meta-anlysis, published here, by Alex Marra, once again suggests that the cessation of contact precautions for the control of endemic MRSA and VRE is without adverse consequences.
My colleague Mark Rupp also published this manuscript in ICHE summarizing the University of Nebraska's positive experience with the discontinuation of contact precautions for the control of endemic MRSA and VRE.
I am off to the University of Nebraska Medical Center tomorrow, to give an invited medical grand rounds lecture on infection prevention- policies, pragmatism and controversies.
I might just talk about the discontinuation of contact precautions too.
