At 04:35 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote:
Some is avoidable, some not. The problem is less with doctors and
nurses than it is with aides of various types, janitors, food
workers, and all the other less educated hospital staff.
5 google clicks seems to disprove your hypothesis. eg
http://www.safecarecampaign.org/Media/pdf/safe_care_brochure.pdf
It's the people who have DIRECT contact with patients -- nurses and
(partly) trained aides (and particularly, serial
patient-to-patient) that do it.
(Oh, yes. And Doctors).
You can cr@p on the floor, and it will have little or no effect to HI rates.
