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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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Written by Christine Besson
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Wednesday, 04 October 2006 |
 Excellent and well documented article in the Sept. 30 Globe and mail
“Hospital scourge
Millions of patients are infected by bacteria, and many die. The burgeoning biological invasion makes SARS and the West Nile virus look like trifling distractions, ANDREW NIKIFORUK writes”
Andrew Nikiforuk is the author of Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century, published by Penguin Group.
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