Category: Government Transparency
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More Data on Hospital-Acquired Infections, Please
Hospitals are dangerous places. Americans acquired 722,000 infections in a hospital setting in 2011, the most recent year cited by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. About one out of twenty-five patients fell victim to preventable hospital-acquired infections. In the interest of controlling infectious disease, health care officials have begun tracking the data more closely in…
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Too Many Deaths from Surgical Complications at UVa
Here’s the good news: 75 fewer people have died from surgical complications at the University of Virginia Medical Center so far this year than last year. Here’s the bad news: The public doesn’t know how many people did die from surgical complications. UVa assuredly knows, but the figure did not appear in a Daily Progress article…