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To: anniegetyourgun
Best estimates are that hospital infections kill 80,000 Americans a year.

Do you have a reference?

14 posted on 04/22/2005 7:05:54 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

This sounds like a subset of the findings of the Institute of Medicine report in 2000-2001, which estimated a total of 100,000 unnecessary deaths annually caused by medical treatment and hazards of the institutional environments in the US.

The problem of "hospital staph" has been long known and recognized here.


16 posted on 04/22/2005 8:49:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: neverdem

Chicago Tribune, 'Infection epidemic carves deadly path' - July 21, 2002.


23 posted on 04/23/2005 4:59:26 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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