Deadly infections at Veterans Affairs hospitals drop

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Apr 15 2011
The New York Times: Study Finds Drop In Deadly VA Hospital Infections
An aggressive four-year effort to reduce the spread of deadly bacterial infections at veterans hospitals is showing impressive results and may have broad implications at medical centers across the country, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the program, which was released Wednesday afternoon (Sack, 4/13).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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