Hospitals Begin to Address Infections Caused by Hospitals

[From article]
"About 1 in 20 hospital patients becomes ill with an infection — many or most of them from the hands of health-care workers. Hospital-acquired infections are the fourth leading cause of death in America. Add up annual deaths in the United States from car accidents, AIDS, and breast cancer, and they are still lower than the 100,000 deaths each year from hospital-acquired infection.
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These infections cost somewhere between $28 billion and $45 billion a year."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/an-electronic-eye-on-hospital-hand-washing/?src=twr

November 24, 2011, 6:45 pm
An Electronic Eye on Hospital Hand-Washing
By TINA ROSENBERG
New York Times