c_yeager..."wanna provide a source for this piece of libel?"
ASK and YOU SHALL RECEIVE, now don't you feel foolish? It's only libel IF it's not TRUE!
libelous
ADJECTIVE: Law. Damaging to the reputation: calumnious, defamatory, detractive, injurious, invidious, scandalous, slanderous.
CHICAGO SUN TIMES
Poor hospital hygiene enough to make you ill
Published: September 25, 2005
The report, in the medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, focuses on a large and deadly group of infections, including acinetobacter. How big is your risk? In the United States, one out of every 20 hospital patients gets an infection, which kills as many people in our country as AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined -- an estimated 103,000 deaths each year. Amazingly, these infections are almost all preventable. They spread rapidly through hospitals because of poor hygiene: unclean hands, lax procedures and contaminated equipment. Research shows that doctors fail to clean their hands before treating a patient 52 percent of the time(1). Stethoscopes, blood pressure monitors and other equipment are often used on one patient after another without being cleaned, and even doctors' lab coats and nurses' uniforms transport germs from bedside to bedside.
THE TIMES UNION
Deaths drive call for cure
Ex-lieutenant governor leads group urging cleaner practices at hospitals to fight germs
By MATT PACENZA, Staff writer
ALBANY -- Pat Moore's 28-year-old son, Brad, went into an Orange County hospital with a head injury after he was mugged nearly three years ago. Three weeks later, he died. The culprit was not his head wound but an infection from staphylococcus aureus, a common bacteria that can be deadly if it enters the body at a vulnerable point -- like near the incision doctors made when they inserted a tube to help Brad Moore
breathe. Joining her was former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, a health policy researcher who recently formed the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. The committee is pushing the state's hospitals to improve their hygiene to save lives. Two million Americans get infections in hospitals each year, and about 103,000 die, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of particular concern is MRSA,
strains of staphylococcus aureus that have proved to be resistant to nearly all antibiotic treatments. There is no mystery as to how to combat hospital infections from regular staph or from MRSA, according to RID. Improving staff hand-washing, systematically disinfecting furniture and equipment, and requiring doctors and nurses to wear disposable aprons can cut rates substantially(1).
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Coming Clean
INFECTIONS that have been nearly eradicated in some other countries are raging through hospitals here in the United States. The major reason? Poor hygiene (1). In fact, hygiene is so inadequate in most American hospitals that one out of every 20 patients contracts an infection during a hospital stay. Hospital infections kill an estimated 103,000 people in the United States a year, as many as AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.
1] Interview with Nicole Coffin, spokesperson for the CDC, Infectious Diseases Division, October 10, 2002 (404-639-2888); See also
Carlo Marena, M.D., et.al., "Assessment of Handwashing Practices with Chemical and Microbiological Agents," American Journal of Infection Control,
(October, 2002) vol. 30., no. 6.; Didier M. Pillet, M.D., "Improving Adherence to Hand Hygiene," Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases vol. 4, no. 3.; Leela C. Blanbt, E. Louise Teare, William W. Williams, Jeremy D. Tuite, "Eradication of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus by 'ring fencing' of elective orthopedic beds," British Medical Journal vol. 329 (July 17, 2004).
