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Hospital infections' costs get attention: Before a federal hearing, a Pa. agency cited death risks and a national $25 billion. A hospital council disputed the analysis.

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| March 29, 2006 | Goldstein, Josh | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Josh Goldstein

Mar. 29--Patients who got infections in a hospital last year were more than five times as likely to die as those who did not and boosted the nation's health costs by an estimated $25 billion, according to a Pennsylvania agency.

Across the state, hospital-acquired infections added $1.2 billion to the cost of care in 2005, according to an analysis by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

"It is not a fact that people must get hospital-acquired infections," said the agency's executive director, Marc P. Volavka. "The goal ought to be the prevention of every single hospital-acquired infection."

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