Is MRSA Screening and Colonization a Good Strategy?

MRSA screening and decolonization has been shown effective for reducing surgical site infections in very specific types of surgeries. What's happening is a lot of institutions are kind of pivoting to doing this for all patients, right? So we're no longer relying on patients to be screened and swabbed before. We're just saying, you know, you Parisin in your nose for five days or we're going to swab your nose with Povidone Iodine."