At 02:44 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote:
Aseptic technique may be imperfect in many places but hundreds of thousands of death due to negligence? Cite please. And not some whacko website, please.
http://www.safepatientproject.org/2007/05/cdc_publishes_sobering_stats_o.html
In a newly released study (1), the CDC estimates that there are 4.5 hospital infections for every 100 patient admissions and nearly 100,000 deaths from hospital infection.
The report was buried : http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/hai/infections_deaths.pdf
Results. In 2002, the estimated number of HAIs in U.S. hospitals, adjusted to
include federal facilities, was approximately 1.7 million: 33,269 HAIs among
newborns in high-risk nurseries, 19,059 among newborns in well-baby nurser
ies, 417,946 among adults and children in ICUs, and 1,266,851 among adults
and children outside of ICUs. The estimated deaths associated with HAIs in
U.S. hospitals were 98,987: of these, 35,967 were for pneumonia, 30,665 for
bloodstream infections, 13,088 for urinary tract infections, 8,205 for surgical
site infections, and 11,062 for infections of other sites.
Of course, Jed was 13 short of "hundreds of thousands" -- but that's just Hospitals. Add in nursing hoems,clinics, doctor's offices ....
