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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
February 25, 2007
It doesn't do much good to get first-rate health care if it is delivered with third-rate hygiene. As many as one out of 20 patients in the United States acquires an infection while they are in the hospital.
Treating those infections costs about $6.7 billion a year, according to one study....
