Over at Discovering Biology in a Digital World, Sandra Porter has a post on the news that the state of Washington is now requiring hospitals to report MRSA cases. (Yay! Perhaps with better reporting, all those genomic efforts to crack the drug-resistance issue will start to make major advances.) What really has Porter interested is the new online database that the public can use to find out a hospital's MRSA stats. While she notes that data can't be considered comprehensive at this point -- hospitals are not required to test all patients for MRSA, just to report the cases that come to their attention -- she says the effort to produce the database is "impressive" and that it may alleviate the problems that arise from institutions trying to police themselves.
How Do We Crack MRSA? Let Us Count the Cases
Nov 21, 2008
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