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Hospitals' Dirty Little Secret: Infections Now Are Rampant.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(PERSPECTIVE)
Byline: BETSY MCCAUGHEY
The dirtiest secret in health care is how dirty some hospitals are. Dirty enough to kill you. Infections that spread through hospitals are the fourth-largest killer, right behind heart disease, cancer and strokes.
How is it possible? Fifty percent of doctors and nurses fail to wash their hands between treating patients, according to numerous studies.
Other culprits: contaminated surgical equipment and hospital workers who wear their scrub suits out onto the street and back into the operating room.
Secret Statistics
Ninety thousand patients die annually from infections they got by going into the hospital, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
The Chicago Tribune puts the death rate even higher, at 103,000 a year. (The CDC estimate is based on deaths at 315 hospitals. The newspaper analyzed records of deaths at 5,810 hospitals.)
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