regarding reporting on death certificates this has gone up see health stats quarterly spring 2005 page 60
deaths mentioning Staph aureus the % specified methicillin resistance increased 51% to 68% 1999 to 2003
between 2002 and 2003 mentions of MRSA on death certificates increased by 19% while lab reports only increased 7%
MRSA involved in 2 in 1,000 deaths in NHS general hospitals and 3 in 1,000 in NHS nursing homes. this compares with 1 in 1,000 deaths overall 1999-2003.
Rupert
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/HSQ25.pdf
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>>> "Macfarlane, Alison" <[log in to unmask]> 07/03/2005 11:41:39 >>>
Can't find them on the Health Protection Agency web site.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/
It's not impossible that incidence might have gone down but case fatality or
at least reporting on death cerrtificates could have increased.
Alison
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From: Ted Harding [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 March 2005 08:19
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: MRSA
In view of the stunning announcement this morning that
(variously) MRSA infections have "dropped by 6 per cent"
and "The number of antibiotic-resistant MRSA infections
in England has fallen to the lowest since recording began,
the government has said" I've been looking around a bit
for the figures.
On the BBC News website I can read:
"From April to September 2004, 3,519 NHS patients
were infected with the bug.
Two weeks ago the Office for National Statistics
said the number of deaths linked to MRSA doubled
in four years.
'Programmes working'
The figures show there were 3,940 patients infected
in the six months leading up to April 2004, compared
with 3,598 between April and September 2001."
(And that's it)
Well that, I suppose, is typical uninformative journalism.
Can anyone point to the figures being referred to in this
morning's news bulletins? The Dept of Health website has
not yet got past the weekend.
Best wishes to all,
Ted.
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