Half of U.S. Hospitals Could Do More to Prevent Serious Infections, Study Finds

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Although many precautions are in place, not enough centers set strict antibiotic limits

WEDNESDAY, April 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Too few hospitals in the United States are doing everything they can to protect patients from a potentially deadly intestinal infection, a new study finds.

Researchers from the University of Michigan surveyed almost 400 hospitals nationwide to determine what measures they had taken to prevent Clostridium difficile infections, which kill nearly 30,000 Americans a year and cause illness in hundreds of thousands more.

Hospital patients are at high risk for C. difficile infections and for suffering serious effects, especially if they have taken …read more

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