A drugs specialist nursing team at a Bristol trust has helped to slash rates of MRSA in injecting drug users. The team at Bristol Royal Infirmary was set up in April 2007 to bridge the gap between acute and primary care and improve services for patients who misused substances. They took on the infection control mantle after a hospital audit revealed a significant number of MRSA infections were entering the hospital via injecting drug users.
Between January and April 2007, the hospital recorded 10 cases of MRSA bacteraemia in injecting drug users. Following the introduction of the infection control role, this went down to nine cases for the whole of 2008. So far this year, the hospital has recorded just one case of MRSA bacteraemia in an injecting drug user.
via Work across primary and acute care cuts MRSA in drug users | News | Nursing Times.
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