Positive Deviance used to combat MRSA

Patient Safety Monitor Alert

March 25, 2009

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Plexus Institute today announced the results of a Positive Deviance program, trialed to see the effects it had on MRSA rates. Positive Deviance solicits ideas for solving a problem from those who deal with that problem often and may think of a solution that might be considered “out of the norm,” but one that works.

To read more about this study on the Patient Safety Monitor blog, click here.