Assessment of a simple clinical score for screening methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in elderly patients upon hospital admission

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 Jul;58(7):1415-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02940.x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Carrier State / diagnosis*
  • Carrier State / prevention & control
  • Carrier State / transmission
  • Diagnostic Tests, Routine
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus*
  • Risk Factors
  • Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / prevention & control
  • Staphylococcal Infections / transmission