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.
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.
That's what I thought, but that's a bit different from nosocomial infections. That IOM report was nicely dissected in the following report.
How Many Deaths Are Due to Medical Error? Getting the Number Right