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Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths
Infection Experts' Report Reveals the CDC'S Deadly Mistakes
May 3rd, 2008
On Wednesday, April 16th the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing on whether the federal government is doing enough to prevent hospital infections. The answer is no. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consistently understate the size of the problem, and their lax guidelines give hospitals an excuse to do too little," says Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., Chairman of the national Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. /p> How many hospital infections' "The CDC claims that 1.7 million people contract infections in U.S. hospitals each year. The truth is many times that number. The proof is in the data,"...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-03)
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