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| Title |
A randomized controlled trial of tea tree oil (5%) body wash versus standard body wash to prevent colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in critically ill adults: research protocol
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-8-161 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gillian Thompson, Bronagh Blackwood, Ronan McMullan, Fiona A Alderdice, T John Trinder, Gavin G Lavery, Danny F McAuley |
| Abstract |
Over the past ten years MRSA has become endemic in hospitals and is associated with increased healthcare costs. Critically ill patients are most at risk, in part because of the number of invasive therapies that they require in the intensive care unit (ICU). Washing with 5% tea tree oil (TTO) has been shown to be effective in removing MRSA on the skin. However, to date, no trials have evaluated the potential of TTO body wash to prevent MRSA colonization or infection. In addition, detecting MRSA by usual culture methods is slow. A faster method using a PCR assay has been developed in the laboratory, but requires evaluation in a large number of patients. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 74 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 71 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 19% |
| Researcher | 12 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 16 | 22% |
| Unknown | 11 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 27% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 8% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 5 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 8 | 11% |
| Unknown | 17 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 May 2019.
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#15,776,552
of 24,049,457 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#4,353
of 8,044 outputs
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#144,191
of 172,080 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#6
of 8 outputs
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