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Have you ever been admitted to the hospital for surgery or illness? Have you ever caught an infection unrelated to your surgery or illness? If so, you have been the victim of a nosocomial infection also known as hospital-acquired infections.
C. difficile, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), are well known, but there are many others.
Do you know that you have more chances to die from a nosocomial infection than from a car accident?
Every year in Quebec, 90 000 people are afflicted by these infections and, of that number, 4000 die immediately.
A minimum of 50% of these infections could be avoided by better prevention and control measures such as strict hand hygiene.
Nosocomial infections are also very costly to the health system. On average they cost 180 millions dollars yearly.
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TECHNOLOGY TO MONITOR HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Tuesday, 02 May 2006 |
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 The insurance company Horizon Blue-Cross Shield of New Jersey has joined forces with the company MedMine developing a software program and tools permitting both an alert system and the monitoring of the rate of hospital-acquired infections.
This year, Horizon has assumed 95% of the cost of this software for the nine hospitals of its network.
Hospitals in the other states participating in such a program have succeeded in diminishing the rate of hospital-acquired infections to a minimum of 20% up to 80% thus reducing significantly the number of victims and the associated elevated costs.
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