"Unnecessary Deaths" calls for the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention and local public health officials to do more to stop hospital

infections. The report, sponsored by the National Center for Policy

Analysis and the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, says it is

alerting the public to the grave financial and human consequences of

poor infection control in American hospitals and maintains that these

infections are almost all preventable through improvements in procedures

and hygiene.

One out of every 20 patients gets an infection in the hospital," asserts

Betty McCaughey, chairman of RID and former Lt. Gov. of New York.

"Infections that have been nearly eradicated in some countries-such as

methicillin-resistant Staphy/ococcus aureus-are raging through hospitals

in the United States."

"Unnecessary Deaths" documents the success of hospitals that have

reduced infections by 85% or more in pilot programs. "Betsy McCaughey's

research dispels the myth that infection is the inevitable and

unavoidable risk of being hospitalized," according to NCPA President

John C. Goodman.

Hospital infections add $30,000,000,000 a year to the nation's hospital

costs, the report declares. The CDC has delayed calling on all hospitals

to institute the rigorous precautions that are working in other

countries and in the few U.S. hospitals that have tried them," states

McCaughey. "CDC standard precautions are far less effective in

preventing hospital infections. Every year of delay has cost thousands

of lives and billions of dollars. The CDC constantly says it is

preparing to do more, but fails to act. The [agency] has spent 25 years

tracking the rise of deadly drug resistant infections in hospitals but

has done too little to stop it."

Inadequate infection control in hospitals is risky to homeland security

and poor preparation for an avian flu threat, McCaughey concludes.

"Hospitals that lack the discipline and training to stop ordinary

bacterial infections from spreading from patient to patient are

unprepared for the larger challenge of stopping avian flu or

bioterrorism pathogens from sweeping through their institutions."

"Unnecessary Deaths" calls for the CDC and local public health officials

in the US to do more to stop hospital infections. The report sponsored

by the National Center for Policy Analysis and the Committee to Reduce

Infection Deaths, says it is alerting the public to the grave financial

and human consequences of poor infection control in American hospitals

and maintains that these infections are almost all preventable through

improvements in procedures and hygiene.

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