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Record W2992177928

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Management of asymptomatic colonization and outbreaks of infection in long-term care.

2002· article· en· W2992177928 on OpenAlexaff
Shelly McNeil, Lona Mody, Suzanne Bradley

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAntimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOutbreakMedicineMupirocinAsymptomatic carrierTransmission (telecommunications)AsymptomaticStaphylococcus aureusInfection controlColonizationMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusStaphylococcal infectionsLong-term careIntensive care medicinePediatricsMicrobiologyInternal medicineVirologyBacteria
DOInot available

Abstract

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Asymptomatic colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is common in long-term care facilities, but the burden of symptomatic infection appears to be low. Patients known to be MRSA carriers should not be refused admission, and routine cultures to identify carriers are not warranted. In the absence of symptomatic MRSA, no measures beyond routine infection control and standard precautions are necessary. Increased rates of infection should prompt investigation of a potential outbreak and initiation of more drastic infection-control measures. During an outbreak, both infected and colonized residents should be isolated until transmission has been halted. Using short-term nasal application of mupirocin ointment for MRSA-colonized residents and staff implicated in the outbreak may help break the chain of transmission.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.074
Threshold uncertainty score0.631

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations28
Published2002
Admission routes1
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