Henry Ford Hospital researchers have found that while infections during hospital stays increased during a 10-year period, the death rate from those infections dropped. The findings were from a nationwide study of patients undergoing surgery for cancer. The findings suggest that diagnosis and management of healthcare-associated infection, or HAI, have improved over time. The study appears in the current issue of the journal iCancer/i. "Cancer ...Friday, 29 March 2013
While Deaths Declined Hospital Infections in Cancer Patients Have Climbed: Study
Henry Ford Hospital researchers have found that while infections during hospital stays increased during a 10-year period, the death rate from those infections dropped. The findings were from a nationwide study of patients undergoing surgery for cancer. The findings suggest that diagnosis and management of healthcare-associated infection, or HAI, have improved over time. The study appears in the current issue of the journal iCancer/i. "Cancer ...
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