For benchmarking purposes, surveillance data
should be collected and reported in a consistent
way, to agreed case definitions and using agreed
specialty activity denominators, with stratification
according to case mix (Category 1b).
Surveillance data should be fed back to hospital
staff routinely, readily intelligible to most hospital
staff, considered regularly at hospital senior management
committees, and used in local infection
control training.
MRSA surveillance should include:
e any mandatory requirements (Category 1c);
e results of microbiological investigations for
clinical purposes (Category 1b); and
e results of microbiological investigations undertaken
for screening purposes (Category 1b