MRSA victims’ group questions study methods

AN MRSA victim advocacy group has questioned the methods being used by the Hospital Infection Society (HIS) to measure MRSA levels in the first extensive study of hospital infection in this country.

The HIS is this week due to begin the study, in conjunction with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), aimed at establishing levels of MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections in 43 of the country’s acute hospitals.

A hospital-acquired infection is a disease picked up by a patient within 24 hours of going into hospital, and includes MRSA, clostridium difficile and the vomiting bug, norovirus.