Hospital Acquired Infection

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- MRSA may accompany hospital patients to home - 7
- Sepsis and pneumonia cost $ 8.1 billion to treat - 4.9
- Vitamin D deficiency in pneumonia patients risky - 4.7
- Gastric ulcer medicines increase pneumonia risk in hospitals - 4.6
- MRSA admission screening may not reduce staph infection rates - 4.5
- Private room intensive care units associated with lower infection rates - 4.1
- New agents to fight MRSA - 4.1
- Surgical site infections common after breast surgery - 3.9
- Developing possibility of a preventive vaccine against HIV AIDS - 3.7
- Gonorrhea increases from 2% to 28% in Ontario, Canada - 3.4

Hospital Acquired Infection articles

Sepsis and pneumonia cost $ 8.1 billion to treat
Two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) killed 48,000 people and ramped up health care costs by $8.1 billion in 2006 alone, according to a study released in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

New agents to fight MRSA
Experts from Queen's University Belfast have developed new agents to fight MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to antibiotics.

MRSA admission screening may not reduce staph infection rates
New findings do not support the recommendation for universal screening on hospital admission for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections in surgical patients, according to a study in the March 12 issue of JAMA.

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