Faced with soaring rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, some experts recommend universal screening of all newly admitted hospital patients for MRSA ...

Nosocomial infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is becoming a worldwide problem. In a recent European study, researchers concluded that universal screening of hospital ...

Surveillance of MRSA is crucial in healthcare settings to ... Negative Predictive Value (NPV): The probability that subjects with a negative screening test truly do not have the disease.