MRSA: Quaterly and six monthly count rates
- Abstract
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Counts of MRSA in NHS trusts.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- MRSA
- Variables
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Quarterly count, six monthly count
- Keywords
- MRSA, count, surveillance, bacterium, monitoring, disease
- Identifier Variables
- NHS trust
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Quality measure, Proxies
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Disease Area
- MRSA
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours, Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Health protection agency
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
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Data is collected from each of the 173 acute NHS trusts in England
- Availability
- Health protection agency and Department of Health
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- HPA http://www.hpa.org.uk/[…]/1233906819629?p=1191942169773 Department of Health http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/hospitalactivity/).
- Contact
- hcai.amrdivision@hpa.org.uk
- Publications
- Johnson AP, Pearson A and Duckworth G. Surveillance and epidemiology of MRSA bacteraemia in the UK. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005; 56: 455–462