Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of meticillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people
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- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006354.pub4Copy DOI
- Database:
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- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Version published:
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- 19 November 2013see what's new
- Type:
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- Intervention
- Stage:
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- Review
- Cochrane Editorial Group:
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Cochrane Wounds Group
- Copyright:
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- Copyright © 2013 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Contributions of authors
Carmel Hughes initiated the review, conducted some of the searches, reviewed the results of all searches and wrote the protocol, review and updated the review.
Michael Tunney reviewed the results of all searches and commented on all final drafts of the protocol, review and updated review.
Marie Bradley undertook the second review update including data extraction and risk of bias assessment and contributed to the writing of the review update.
Contributions of editorial base:
Nicky Cullum: edited the review, advised on methodology, interpretation and review content. Approved the final review and review update prior to submission.
Sally Bell‐Syer: coordinated the editorial process. Advised on methodology, interpretation and content. Edited the review and the updated review.
Ruth Foxlee: designed the search strategy, ran the searches and edited the search methods section for the update.
Sources of support
Internal sources
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No sources of support supplied
External sources
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Research and Development Office, Northern Ireland, UK.
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NIHR/Department of Health (England), (Cochrane Wounds Group), UK.
Declarations of interest
Carmel Hughes and Michael Tunney were investigators on the study which was included in the 2011 review and this latest version of the review (Baldwin 2010). Mike Smith (author on the original review and first two updates) independently extracted and checked the data on the included study.
Acknowledgements
Carmel Hughes was supported by a Cochrane Fellowship from the Research and Development Office, Northern Ireland to complete the original version of this review.
The authors wish to acknowledge the support of Sally Bell‐Syer and Kath Wright, Ali Baba‐Akbari Sari, Vittoria Lutje, Jessie McGowan and Ruth Foxlee in helping to develop the search strategies for this protocol.
The authors would like to thank the contribution of the editors/referees: Editors, Gill Cranny, Nicky Cullum, Micah Paul and David Margolis; Referees, Josephine Chow and Susan O'Meara. Copy Editors Margaret Carver and Elizabeth Royle. Managing Editor Sally Bell‐Syer.
The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of Mike Smith who was an author on the original review and who supervised the writing of the protocol and review and commented on all final drafts of the review and the first two updates. In addition Mike Smith independently extracted and checked the data on the included study (Baldwin 2010).
Version history
| Published | Title | Stage | Authors | Version |
| 2013 Nov 19 | Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of meticillin‐resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people | Review | Carmel Hughes, Michael Tunney, Marie C Bradley | |
| 2011 Dec 07 | Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of meticillin‐resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people | Review | Carmel Hughes, Michael Smith, Michael Tunney, Marie C Bradley | |
| 2008 Jan 23 | Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of meticillin‐resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people | Review | Carmel Hughes, Michael Smith, Michael Tunney | |
| 2007 Jan 24 | Infection control strategies for preventing the transmission of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus in nursing homes and associated older residents. | Protocol | Carmel Hughes, Michael Smith, Michael Tunney | |
Keywords
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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Keywords
Medical Subject Headings Check Words
Aged; Humans;
PICOs
Risk of bias summary: review authors' judgements about each risk of bias item for each included study.
