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ihlr-16571	Barnes, Beth A.	Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Vicarious Liability, or Patient Responsibility: Who Should Pay When a Patient Contracts MRSA From a Healthcare Facility?	2010	32	.pdf	application/pdf	13210	780	58	[Vol. 7:335 thirds after implementing patient screening measures.72 A Boston hospital found that routine culturing of patients and implementation of contact pre­ cautions for MRSA patients resulted in a sixty-seven percent drop in infec­ tion rates.73 The Boston hospital believed it would have reduced HA­ MRSA infection rates even more if it either isolated patients until results were received, or used the rapid PCR MRSA test, which produces results in a couple of hours, instead of the culture method, which produces results in two days. [Vol. 7:335 In the United States, MRSA infections tripled from 2000 to 2005 and were ten times higher in 2005 than 1995.34 In 2005, there were 368,600 hospital admissions for MRSA-including 94,000 invasive infections[,]35 about eighty-six percent of which were healthcare-acquired.36 The ·coc found that MRSA killed nearly 19,000 people in the United States in 2005, a number higher than victims of Hurricane Katrina and AIDS combined the same year.37	cache/ihlr-16571.pdf	txt/ihlr-16571.txt