We conducted a retrospective case control study about the implications of MRSA infection on post surgical quality of life of 413 trauma patients presenting to our clinic over a five year period from 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2004. An increased mortality rate of 30,43% in five years could be delineated as well as a specifically MRSA attributable mortality rate of 24,02%. Applying the FLZ-M questionnaire a dramatic loss of quality of life in most fields of life could be shown with MRSA infection irrespective of focus or underlying disease or trauma, by comparison of MRSA infected patients with the average population of the FRG and with patients with special diseases (such as other infections, carcinoma, AIDS, Crohn´s disease…).
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We conducted a retrospective case control study about the implications of MRSA infection on post surgical quality of life of 413 trauma patients presenting to our clinic over a five year period from 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2004. An increased mortality rate of 30,43% in five years could be delineated as well as a specifically MRSA attributable mortality rate of 24,02%. Applying the FLZ-M questionnaire a dramatic loss of quality of life in most fields of life could be shown with MRSA inf...
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