Health care professionals then send encrypted data about the patients to the clinical data registry through a highly secure web portal or from their electronic health record. As data enters the clinical data registry, quality checks are performed to ensure the correctness and completeness of the data.
90 days or 3 months: It depends on the host's immune system, interaction with other bacteria and environmental circumstances, exposure to antibiotics but generally MRSA can live up to 90 days or 3 months.
The bacteria responsible for MRSA infections are able to survive for up to seven months on dust, up to eight weeks on a mop head and up to 203 days on a blanket. Hospital patients sometimes develop MRSA infections after having invasive procedures or being exposed to intravenous tubing.