MRSA Nasal Colonization Testing and Pneumonia

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Target Audience

Family Medicine Physicians, Internal Medicine Physicians, Hospitalists, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, and all other prescribing providers.

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the negative and positive predictive values for MRSA nares screening for pneumonia.
  • Identify situations in which MRSA nares screening would not likely be helpful.
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Smith MN, Brotherton AL, Lusardi K, et al. Systematic review of the clinical utility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal screening for MRSA pneumonia. Ann Pharmacother. 2019; 53(6): 627-638.
  • Parente DM, Cunha CB, Mylonakis, E, et al. The clinical utility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal screening to rule out MRSA pneumonia: A diagnostic meta-analysis with antimicrobial stewardship implications. Clin Infect Dis. 2018; 67(1): 1–7. 
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.25 General certificate of attendance
  • 0.25 Nurse Practitioners
  • 0.25 Florida Board of Pharmacy
Course opens: 
08/01/2023
Course expires: 
07/31/2026
Part of: 
Antimicrobial Stewardship e-Learning Series

Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCIDP    
Director, ID PGY2 Pharmacy Residency Program 
Manager, Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Program
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Richard L. Levine, M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist
Baptist Hospital, Doctors Hospital and South Miami Hospital
Chairman, Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, Doctors Hospital
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm. D., BCPS, BCIDP, faculty for this educational activity, is a consultant with Pattern Biosciences (formerly Klaris Diagnostics), DoseMeRx by Tabula Rasa, Pfizer and MeMed. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage. 

Richard L. Levine, M.D., faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.

Mark Hauser, M.D., conference director for this activity, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*. 

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
              
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.25 General certificate of attendance
  • 0.25 Nurse Practitioners
  • 0.25 Florida Board of Pharmacy
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