Podcast 112: MRSA guidelines from IDSA

The Infectious Diseases Society of American last week issued clinical practice guidelines on dealing with methicillin-resistant S. aureus infection. We interview the principal author of those guidelines, Dr. Catherine Liu of the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Liu responds to the criticism leveled earlier this week against all IDSA guidelines, for their apparent lack of high-level evidence to back their recommendations.

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Links related to the interview:

• IDSA guidelines in Clinical Infectious Diseases (free)
• Archives of Internal Medicine paper criticizing IDSA guidelines in general (free abstract)
• Archives of Internal Medicine editorial on the criticism (not free, but worth reading)
  

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