National Healthcare Quality Report Spotlights High Hospital Infection Rates
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
An estimated 1.7 million health-care-associated infections, or HAIs, occur each year in hospitals, and nearly 100,000 of those infections lead to death.
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