TY - JOUR AU - Pasricha, Janet AU - Harbarth, Stephan AU - Koessler, Thibaud AU - Camus, Veronique AU - Schrenzel, Jacques AU - Cohen, Gilles AU - Pittet, Didier AU - Perrier, Arnaud AU - Iten, Anne PY - 2013 DA - 2013/05/30 TI - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus risk profiling: who are we missing? JO - Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control SP - 17 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - Targeted screening of patients at high risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage is an important component of MRSA control programs, which rely on prediction tools to identify those high-risk patients. Most previous risk studies reported a substantial rate of patients who are eligible for screening, but failed to be enrolled. The characteristics of these missed patients are seldom described. We aimed to determine the rate and characteristics of patients who were missed by a MRSA screening programme at our institution to see how the failure to include these patients might impact the accuracy of clinical prediction tools. SN - 2047-2994 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-17 DO - 10.1186/2047-2994-2-17 ID - Pasricha2013 ER -