What Is the Primary Driver of Preoperative Vancomycin Use? It’s Not Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus—or Allergy

Factors driving vancomycin surgical prophylaxis are poorly understood. In a national Veterans Affairs cohort with manually validated data, surgical specialty (cardiac, orthopedics) and perception of high facility methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevalence—not MRSA colonization—wer...

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Published in:Clin Infect Dis
Main Authors: Strymish, Judith M, O’ Brien, William, Itani, Kamal, Gupta, Kalpana, Branch-Elliman, Westyn
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744972/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32337589
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa475
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