Study Finds County-Wide Decolonization Intervention In Nursing Homes, Select Hospitalized Patients Led To Fewer MDRO Infections, Hospitalization, Deaths

MedPage Today (4/1, Kahn) reports an Orange County, California-wide “decolonization intervention in nursing homes and among selected hospital patients led to fewer multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) infections, hospitalizations, and deaths across the region,” results published in JAMA Network show. “Decolonization also decreased infection-related hospitalization among participating nursing homes by an adjusted 26.7%...compared with nonparticipating nursing homes,” researchers found.