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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) —Hospital-skittish people are convinced they will leave the hospital far sicker than when they came in. While assured they are working on groundless fear, recent hospital-borne infections make them all the more fearful. Infections further weaken patients and have been attributed to over 98,000 deaths each year in the United States. The numbers are grim no matter how sliced. According to estimates, about one out of 20 hospitalized patients get an infection.