The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients

Staphylococcus aureus can commonly be found as normal flora in human but the pathogenic strain can lead to health problems. Prompt treatment of patients is important to prevent the spread of infection, especially because it has become resistant to multiple antibiotics including methicillin (thus Met...

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Main Authors:	Mohammad Noor, Nurul Nadiah, A.Rahman, Nor Azlina, Mohamad Zin, Noraziah, Hanafiah, Alfizah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	RZ Other systems of medicine
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spelling	iium-474902016-05-12T06:55:47Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47490/ The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients Mohammad Noor, Nurul Nadiah A.Rahman, Nor Azlina Mohamad Zin, Noraziah Hanafiah, Alfizah RZ Other systems of medicine Staphylococcus aureus can commonly be found as normal flora in human but the pathogenic strain can lead to health problems. Prompt treatment of patients is important to prevent the spread of infection, especially because it has become resistant to multiple antibiotics including methicillin (thus Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA) which can lead to higher cost of treatment and increasing mortality. The objective of this research was to evaluate the perceptions of nurses working in high risk wards in Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (PPUKM), namely the surgical and orthopaedic wards, regarding the cost-effectiveness and practical issues of universal screening for MRSA on patients admitted to the hospital, as opposed to the screening of only high risk patients as of the current practice. This qualitative study used focus group discussions of the purposely selected nurses as the data collection method. The results show that a majority of the participants agreed for universal screening of MRSA being carried out upon admission of patients, irrespective of the cost. Among others, the reasons given were to prevent the transmission of infection to hospital staff or other healthy individuals and to shorten the length of stay in hospital, which indirectly would be more cost-effective in the long run. Most of them also perceived that cohort isolation would be more cost-effective as compared to individual isolation of MRSA infected patients as a preventive method. All of them had experienced taking swabs from patients for MRSA screening and they thought of it as a simple procedure. In conclusion, majority of the participants perceived that universal screening for MRSA and cohort isolation would be more cost-effective in the prevention of MRSA, besides perceiving no major practical issues if it is going to be carried out in PPUKM. 2015-12-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47490/1/2015_%281%29_-_ICMSM_%28poster%29_-_MRSA.pptx application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47490/2/Abstract_ICMSM_2015_-azlina.pdf Mohammad Noor, Nurul Nadiah and A.Rahman, Nor Azlina and Mohamad Zin, Noraziah and Hanafiah, Alfizah (2015) The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients. In: International Conngress for the Malaysian Society of Microbiology (ICMSM) 2015, 7-10 December 2015, Bayview Beach Resort Penang.
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spellingShingle	RZ Other systems of medicine Mohammad Noor, Nurul Nadiah A.Rahman, Nor Azlina Mohamad Zin, Noraziah Hanafiah, Alfizah The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients
description	Staphylococcus aureus can commonly be found as normal flora in human but the pathogenic strain can lead to health problems. Prompt treatment of patients is important to prevent the spread of infection, especially because it has become resistant to multiple antibiotics including methicillin (thus Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA) which can lead to higher cost of treatment and increasing mortality. The objective of this research was to evaluate the perceptions of nurses working in high risk wards in Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (PPUKM), namely the surgical and orthopaedic wards, regarding the cost-effectiveness and practical issues of universal screening for MRSA on patients admitted to the hospital, as opposed to the screening of only high risk patients as of the current practice. This qualitative study used focus group discussions of the purposely selected nurses as the data collection method. The results show that a majority of the participants agreed for universal screening of MRSA being carried out upon admission of patients, irrespective of the cost. Among others, the reasons given were to prevent the transmission of infection to hospital staff or other healthy individuals and to shorten the length of stay in hospital, which indirectly would be more cost-effective in the long run. Most of them also perceived that cohort isolation would be more cost-effective as compared to individual isolation of MRSA infected patients as a preventive method. All of them had experienced taking swabs from patients for MRSA screening and they thought of it as a simple procedure. In conclusion, majority of the participants perceived that universal screening for MRSA and cohort isolation would be more cost-effective in the prevention of MRSA, besides perceiving no major practical issues if it is going to be carried out in PPUKM.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mohammad Noor, Nurul Nadiah A.Rahman, Nor Azlina Mohamad Zin, Noraziah Hanafiah, Alfizah
author_facet	Mohammad Noor, Nurul Nadiah A.Rahman, Nor Azlina Mohamad Zin, Noraziah Hanafiah, Alfizah
author_sort	Mohammad Noor, Nurul Nadiah
title	The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients
title_short	The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients
title_full	The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients
title_fullStr	The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients
title_full_unstemmed	The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients
title_sort	perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) among patients
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/47490/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47490/1/2015_%281%29_-_ICMSM_%28poster%29_-_MRSA.pptx http://irep.iium.edu.my/47490/2/Abstract_ICMSM_2015_-azlina.pdf
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The perception of nurses in high risk wards regarding the cost-effectiveness and practicality of universal screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) among patients

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