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Can you help prevent hospital infections?

Few things scare patients more these days than the possibility of acquiring a hospital infection while undergoing a simple operation or routine hospital stay.  Patients who ordinarily wouldn’t think twice about a short hospital stay are now nervously eyeing their nurses and doctors, wondering about the cleanliness of their hands and their gowns.

This is for good reason – each year, 1.7 million Americans are infected and more than 100,000 people die from these infections.  It’s enough to scare even the most pragmatic of patients away from a stint in the hospital.  But avoiding surgery and necessary hospitalization isn’t always possible.  Fortunately, there are steps that patients can take to ensure their own safety, and possibly avoid contracting MRSA or another type of hospital infection.

To find out more about what you can to do stay safe during your surgery or hospital stay, please read the article “Avoiding Hospital Acquired Infections” in our legal library.  You can find more information about hospital infections in our other article, “Hospital Infections: A Serious Epidemic”.

Have you or someone you know been affected by a hospital acquired infection?  Do you have a scheduled surgery or hospital stay coming up, and are you concerned?  If you have thoughts to share about hospital infections, we’d like to hear them.  Please leave us a comment.

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