Summary
A hospital-acquired infection triples a patient's length of stay and their risk of dying five-fold.
A study in the US looked at rates of Staphylococcus aureus (S aureus) infection in hundreds of hospitals to assess the impact on costs, time in hospital and mortality rates.See the full content of this document
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Hospital Infections Triple Patients' Length of Stay
The researchers concluded that the infections were an enormous burden on hospitals by signi...
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