Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Screening With Polymerase Chain Reaction for Early De-escalation of Empiric Vancomycin in the Treatment of Suspected/Confirmed Respiratory Infection in Critically Ill Patients
The implementation of a MRSA nasal screening for critically ill patients treated with vancomycin for pneumonia resulted in a significantly shorter duration of vancomycin treatment without negatively affecting patient outcomes.
Authors
- Pranisha Gautam‐Goyal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9857-1826)
- Evelyn Luo
- Eric Gottesman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3282-5176)
- Ryan Butzko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9276-2381)
- Didier Ledoux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9314-6564)
- Amanda Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1889-0051)
- Christian Daniel Barrera Maldonado
- Sumeet Jain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9470-7239)
- Kelvin Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8329-6123)
- Patricia Saunders-Hao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7910-7349)
- Dimitre G. Stefanov
Institutions
- Northwell Health (US)
- North Shore University Hospital (US)
- Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Therapeutics
- Published
- 2024-12-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/mjt.0000000000001809
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.39