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| BrentB 2006-07-30, 2:25 am |
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Jan Drew wrote:
> http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServe...ionyourhospital
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> Sign up to deliver the Stop Hospital Infections Petition to your local
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pop this back up...s/b very interesting trends in rates I would think,
thanks. Any one know why these numbers are not available in the first
place?
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| Skeptic 2006-07-30, 4:26 pm |
| Hospital acquired infections can not be "stopped" any more than community
acquired infections. They are going to happen. They can be minimized, and
great lengths are taken to do this, but they simply can not be stopped.
"BrentB" <borgersbrent@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Jan Drew wrote:
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> pop this back up...s/b very interesting trends in rates I would think,
> thanks. Any one know why these numbers are not available in the first
> place?
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| Skeptic 2006-07-30, 4:26 pm |
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"Marcia" <design1@insight.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Jan Drew wrote:
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> Don't you think this is already on hospitals' to-do list?
Indeed. Every hospital I have worked at or been affiliated at has a task
force (of experts in the field) designated to do just this. In fact, my
current hospital's epidemiology task force just contacted my clinic and are
forcing a change in the cleaning method of our biopsy guns, effective
immediately. I don't think it makes a difference, but apparently they think
it may so it's now an official change.
Infections acquired in a hospital are tough to deal with for the treating
physicians, can be dangerous for the patients, and are costly for the
hospital. Huge efforts are made to minimize such problems, but alas, we'll
never see the end of infections as that would be simply impossible.
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