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Hospitals Urged to Control Patient Infection (Metropolitan Nurse, March 8, 2007) |
"Hospital infections affect two million Americans every year, costing 100,000 lives and adding $30.5 billion to the nation's healthcare tab," said Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., founder and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID). "This issue is especially critical for New York right now," she said, because infection rates of New York hospitals will be made public beginning in 2008.