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Hospital infections' cost tallied: In a first, a report broke down 19,154 cases in Pa. last year.
Byline: Josh Goldstein
Nov. 15--Jeanne Stagloff expected that the surgery to repair a tear in her right knee would have her back on the ski slopes in no time.
But soon after her operation in February, the 56-year-old tax accountant developed an infection. As a result, Stagloff needed two additional operations, eight days in a Montgomery County hospital, and more than six months of rehabilitation. Each year, thousands of patients contract infections in hospitals, a problem detailed for the first time yesterday in a report surveying 168 Pennsylvania hospitals.
Last year, 19,154 patients in Pennsylvania were infected in a hospital -- driving up health-care costs, lengths of hospital stays, and death rates, the report said. The study examined 1.6 million hospitalizations.
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