Government subsidies could be key to containing hospital-born infections

Government subsidies could be key to containing hospital-born infections

Morgan Kelly, Princeton Environmental Institute, April 3, 2019 10:58 a.m.

Health care-associated infections — illnesses that people contract while being treated in a hospital or other health care facility — sicken millions of people each year and cost billions of dollars in additional treatment. While there has been some improvement over the years, on any given day, about 3 percent of the hospitalized population in the United States has at least one health care-associated infection, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

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