Each year, hospital-acquired infections sicken about 1.7 million and kill 99, 000 people in the United States.
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Dr Andrew Walker, an expert in health economics at Glasgow University, highlighted the problem in a report on hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
But fewer than half manage this says the NHS, which warns 25, 000 people die each year from hospital-acquired DVT.
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Simply putting the spotlight on hospital-acquired infections keeps the staff focused, he says.
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The injectable medicine, for hospital-acquired infections, would be given once per week, compared with twice per day for mainstay vancomycin.
Unfortunately, the average hospital is one of the most dangerous places with over 100, 000 hospital-acquired infections causing death every year.
In the U.S., more than 63, 000 patients die every year from hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to at least one antibiotic.
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Over 70% of the bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections are resistant to at least one of the drugs used to fight them.
So yes of course there's a problem with hospital-acquired infection but I think there are good plans on hand to deal with that.
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The health secretary defended the coalition's record on the NHS, claiming the number of hospital-acquired infections were down, as well as waiting times.
But the prime minister defended the government's record, claiming there were more doctors and fewer hospital-acquired infections since the coalition came to power.
Cubist Pharmaceuticals in Lexington, Mass. is waiting for approval on Cidecin, an injection for treating hospital-acquired skin infections, which was discovered and then mothballed by Eli Lilly.
Chief Nursing Officer, Professor Christine Beasley said there was no single solution and the new proposals were part of a wider set of measures to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
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In a study out today at a big infectious disease conference, it compared its best selling antibiotic Zyvox to the older gold-standard drug vancomycin in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Under new rules published Wednesday, Medicare will soon stop payment for at least eight conditions, including common hospital-acquired infections, blatant surgical errors, and injuries that result from a fall.
Hospital-acquired infections kill some 90, 000 people each year.
MRSA, for instance, is blamed partly on waiting-time targets which put pressure on hospitals to squeeze in as many patients as possible rather than take care to ensure that hospital-acquired infections do not spread.
Pennsylvania, which requires the most extensive reporting of hospital-acquired infections, saw the annual rate for all infections drop 8 percent, according to the most recent figures available from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
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Hospital-acquired infections are a global problem.
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One of the report's authors, Peter Gill, from the department of primary care health services at the University of Oxford, said these cases should be the "bread and butter" of community care and admissions put pressure on hospital services and carried the risk of hospital-acquired infections.
He took Columbia public in 1990, acquired the 71-hospital Galen chain in 1993 and months later merged with HCA's 100 facilities, creating the world's biggest hospital chain.
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