RT Journal
A1 Liu C
T1 The bundled approach to mrsa surgical site infection prevention: Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?: comment on “sustained reduction in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus wound infections after cardiothoracic surgery”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD January 10
VO 171
IS 1
SP 73
OP 74
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.448
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.448
AB 
Surgical site infections (SSIs) cause significant patient morbidity and mortality and add $10 billion annually to health care expenditures.1Staphylococcus aureus is the most common pathogen, with methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) accounting for up to 65% of poststernotomy mediastinitis.2 Compared with infections due to methicillin-susceptible S aureus (MSSA), MRSA has been associated with increased mortality, treatment failure, length of hospital stay, and costs.3- 4