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U.S. Hospitals Must Be Distributing MRSA With The Wrist Bands
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U.S. Hospitals are sending patients home with a lifetime and deadly infection.
As Many As 1.2M Hospital Patients Infected With MRSA Annually, Study Finds
As many as 1.2 million U.S. hospital patients are infected with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus each year, nearly 10 times as many as previously estimated, according to a study released on Monday at the annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology in San Jose, Calif., the Chicago Tribune reports (Graham, Chicago Tribune, 6/25).The study suggests that 1.2 million hospital patients are infected with MRSA annually and that 423,000 additional patients are colonized with MRSA, compared with previous CDC estimates that 126,000 were infected annually (Chicago Tribune, 6/25).
According to the survey, the active infection rate is 8.6 times higher than the most recent estimate of the rate of infection by CDC (Russell, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/25).
APIC CEO Kathy Warye said, "This study is a real wake-up call to health care workers. It presents a much more comprehensive picture of the burden of MRSA." Lisa McGiffert, manager of the Stop Hospital Infections project of Consumers Union, said MRSA infections are "dangerous" and "there is not enough being done to protect patients from getting them," adding, "Hospitals are going to have to do more. They have to be more aggressive, and it's just not happening" (San Francisco Chronicle, 6/25).
I wonder what the MRSA infection rate is in England, Canada, France and Cuba where universal health insurance exists. Can it be any worse?
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