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hospital-associated infections (HAIs)
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Confused hospitals underreport infections
Despite reports that catheter infection rates are nearly 50 percent lower than the national average, California public health officials are investigating whether the reports accurately reveal the
HHS forms infection-fighting hospital engagement networks
Furthering its efforts to improve patient safety, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is awarding $218 million to 26 hospital organizations to reduce hospital-acquired conditions
Hospital-acquired infections influence patients' hospital selection
Although healthcare facilities are typically thought of as sterile environments, 64 percent of Americans don't think they're any safer from germs in hospitals than they are in their daily lives,
Infection surveillance varies by hospital
Hospitals need to get on the same page when it comes to checking for bloodstream infections among patients seeing as current methods of surveillance vary from facility to facility, according to a
