Table 1 Patients considered at high risk for MRSA colonization and eligible for screening and pre-emptive isolation according to the guideline of the Dutch Working Party on Infection Preventiona
Patients transferred from a foreign hospital who | 1) have been admitted there for more than 24 hours, or |
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2) have undergone surgery, or | |
3) had a catheter, or | |
4) were intubated, or | |
5) have wounds or infections such as abscesses or furunculosis | |
Patients transferred from a Dutch hospital or nursing home with an uncontrolled MRSA outbreak | |
Patients who are contacts of an unexpected MRSA carrier | |
Patients treated for MRSA carriage when control cultures are not performed yet or unknown | |
Children who had been adopted from foreign countries | |
Patients who have professional exposure to living pigs on pig farms or patients living on a pig farmb | |