Relationship between knowledge and attitudes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and hand hygiene behavior in Veterans with spinal cord injury and disorder

Use of the PARIHS Framework for Retrospective and Prospective Implementation Evaluations

“…Despite the retrospective nature of the evaluation in the MRSA study, we were able to enhance the ongoing implementation by identifying the need for an educational toolkit which addressed SCI/D‐specific information and risk factors related to MRSA to facilitate patient education. As a result of the findings in the MRSA study, we developed and tested a set of SCI‐specific MRSA educational tools delivered by nurse clinical champions as part of another related funded MRSA study (Evans et al., ; Hill et al., ; Ramanathan et al., ) which were later disseminated by the national program office to all SCI centers.…”