MRSA Data Gathering Tool
{"Image DocumentName": "MRSA Data Gathering Tool", "Image ImageDescription": "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO TALK AROUND SLIDE. This tool will help the data gathering process by giving a list of prompts pertinent/specific to MRSA. It will highlight from where information should be collected. This data gathering tool will help identify key issues /problems in the service user care pathway that may have contributed to MRSA bacteraemia. The review meeting members can then be informed of the key issues. This tool is not meant to replace an existing documentation\u2013 but could be incorporated or inserted \u2013 and included as part of the record of the RCA investigation. There is also a CDI version with slightly different questions for this infection. It is useful to give a practice example from your experience where an RCA investigation has missed a key issue. The following is an example: An ITU service user developed a bacteraemia and the RCA investigation concluded that the service user had self contaminated herself via central line route because she was agitated. What the RCA team lacked was information that the service user had been screened according to policy on admission and was negative. There was also another service user in the unit who was known to be MRSA positive in the vicinity of the service user who developed the bacteraemia. The true root cause was actually one of cross contamination by staff. Other information that would have been useful to the team would have been the hand hygiene audit scores at the time of the bacteraemia, which may have indicated which group of staff to target, or if audit scores were high, may have even indicated that it was not their own staff but occasional visiting staff that caused the contamination.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}