CHICAGO: Nursing home residents appear to be significant carriers of super bug infections into hospitals, potentially putting other patients at risk.
This is the finding of a university study that has investigated management of infection in aged care facilities, and the over-prescription of antibiotics to residents.
The findings have prompted a call for a rethink on how nursing homes manage hygiene, and raised the question as to whether care facilities need to be more physically structured like hospitals – including the abandonment of germ-harbouring carpet for lino…