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Alarms raised on hospital infections in Pennsylvania.
Jul. 13--A groundbreaking report being released today says more than 11,000 patients in Pennsylvania acquired infections during their hospital stays last year.
The hospital-acquired infections contributed to more than 1,500 deaths, forced patients to extend their stays by a combined 205,000 days and were responsible for about $2 billion in additional hospital charges, the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council report said.
The mortality rate among patients with hospital-acquired infections was 15.4 percent, compared with 2.4 percent for all other hospital patients, the report said.
The problem may have been even more extensive, the agency said, noting that some unnamed hospitals reported no infections at all, which was unlikely.
"I think this is a critically important piece of work," said Paul O'Neill, the former U.S. Treasury secretary and…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Alarms raised on hospital infections in Pennsylvania.
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