“…However, adherence to current guidelines, with isolation measures to reduce MRSA transmission, is supported by a recent systematic review. 17 Even as outpatients, attending the clinic or day unit, problems are encountered with patients requiring special 'areas' in which to be assessed, again not practical in many settings. Guidelines from the CDC 8 suggest that in centres where MRSA is problematic, patients should be treated as a cohort; however, a recent paper in The Lancet suggested that in the Intensive Therapy Unit setting, moving patients into single rooms or cohorted bays was not associated with a reduction in crossinfection.…”