Erratum to: Impact of Preoperative MRSA Screening and Decolonization on Hospital-acquired MRSA Burden

Erratum to: Clin Orthop Relat Res DOI 10.1007/s11999-013-2848-3

In the Questions/Purposes section of the abstract, the text is incorrect as published. It should read: The purposes of this study were (1) to determine the MRSA  prevalence density rate at a specialty orthopaedic hospital before and after the implementation of a screening and decolonization protocol, (2) to compare our prevalence density to that of an affiliated university hospital, to control for changes in MRSA prevalence density that might have been independent of the decolonization protocol, and (3) to measure the admission prevalence density rate of MRSA in an elective orthopaedic surgery population and the compliance rate of 26 patients with the protocol.

In addition, Tables 1 and 2 in the Results section are incorrect as published. The corrected versions of the tables are below:

Table 1 Sources of Staphylococcus aureus isolates before and after the implementation of screening and decolonization protocol

Table 2 Staphylococcus aureus prevalence rates before and after the implementation of a decolonization protocol

The authors apologize for these errors.