HealthMEDX Blog Pills for Unreal Ills: Study highlights flaws in traditional UTI diagnosis and treatment in SNFs

Around 10 years ago, hospitals nationwide sounded the alarm on an emerging threat - the rise of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). Due to the general over-prescribing of antibiotics, the resilient form of Staph infection had stopped responding to the traditional treatment. Now, even after a decade of antibiotic education and infection control measures, the CDC projects that two million people annually are infected by resistant bacteria, and at least 23,000 of those die.