Videos
~ 1 in 25 hospital patients gets infection – CBS News – VIDEO
~ Antibiotic resistant ‘superbugs’ killing thousands in US hospitals – YouTube
~ Consumer Reports Examines Hospital Safety – YouTube
Hospital infection rates investigation – Youtube
~ Hospitals Penalized Due To Hospital Acquired Conditions – YouTube
~ How to stop Hospital Infections – YouTube
~ Infection Rates At Hospitals Require Patient, Family Intervention – YouTube
NBC2 Investigators probe hospital acquired infections – Youtube
~ Why Superbugs Thrive In Hospitals – YouTube
Mainstream News
In U.S., hospital-acquired infections run rampantHOW YOUR HOSPITAL CAN MAKE YOU SICK
- ~ 1 in 10 patients are infected in hospital, and it’s not always with what you think (Australia) – The Conversation
- ~ 1 in 25 patients battling hospital-acquired infections, CDC says – Fox News
- ~ 1 in 25 patients gets infection in hospital – CNN
- ~ CDC- Thousands of deaths from drug-resistant -superbugs- could be prevented – CBS News
- ~ Child heart patients treated for surgical infection – STAT
- ~ Culture of Secrecy Shields Hospitals With Outbreaks of Drug-Resistant Infections – The New York Times
- ~ Drug-resistant superbugs are killing thousands of Americans. Here’s what you need to know about them – USA Today
- ~ Hospital-acquired infections kill tens of thousands of Americans every year – The Washington Post
- ~ Hospitals installed more sinks to stop infections. The sinks can make the problem worse – STAT
- ~ Hospitals know how to reduce or stop staph infections. So why are thousands still dying? MRSA, staph infections are preventable, but killed nearly 20,000 in 2017 – USA Today
- ~ Hospitals and Superbugs: Go in Sick… Get Sicker – Scientific American
- ~ Hospitals Don’t Have to Tell You About Deadly Superbug Risks Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are deadly and increasingly common — but patients don’t always find out when they’ve been exposed – Bloomberg
- ~ How to protect yourself from hospital-acquired infections – CBS News
- ~ HOW YOUR HOSPITAL CAN MAKE YOU SICK Our centers for healing have turned into breeding grounds for dangerous—even deadly—infections. Consumer Reports’ new Ratings of more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals show which do a good job of avoiding the infections—and which don’t. – Consumer Reports
- ~ In U.S., hospital-acquired infections run rampant – CBS News
- ~ Is your hospital as safe as it claims? Consumer Reports wants your help tracking down hospitals that may not accurately report deadly infections – Consumer Reports
- ~ New estimate- 1 in 25 hospital patients get an infection – USA Today
- ~ New York Identifies Hospitals and Nursing Homes With Deadly Fungus – The New York Times
- ~ ‘Nightmare bacteria’ are trying to spread in the U.S., CDC says – NBC News
- ~ No one knows how many patients are dying from superbug infections in California hospitals – Los Angeles Times
- ~ One in 25 Infected in U.S. Hospitals, Report Finds – NBC News
- ~ One in 25 patients battling hospital-acquired infections- CDC – Reuters
- ~ Superbugs a major threat to hospital patients – CBS News
- ~ ‘The deadly epidemic America is ignoring The Uncounted: Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll – Reuters
- ~ The hospitals that do best and worst against superbugs – CBS News
- ~ Thousands are dying from hospital infections – SF Gate
- ~ U.S. deaths from staph infections surpass AIDS – Chron
- ~ We Have No Idea How Many People Die From Superbug Infections – HuffPost Life
- ~ Why 70,000 Americans Die Needlessly In Hospitals Each Year – Forbes
Independent News
99,000 Americans Die of Healthcare-Aquired Infections Every Year2.5 million Europeans die from hospital infections every year
More People in the United States Dying From Antibiotic Resistant Infections than Previously Estimated
- ~ 1 in 25 patients will acquire infection in the hospital, CDC says – Modern Healthcare
- ~ 99,000 Americans Die of Healthcare-Aquired Infections Every Year – Health Line
- ~ 99,000 Die Yearly From Preventable Hospital Infections – WebMD
- ~ 2 Million Patients Contract Hospital-Acquired Infections Each Year – Wolters Kluwer
- ~ 2.5 million Europeans die from hospital infections every year – Science Nordic
- ~ Bacterial colonization and succession in a newly opened hospital – Science Translational Medicine
- ~ CDC warns open-heart surgery patients on risks of medical-device infection — DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog
- ~ Hospital Infections Kill 48,000 Each Year (2010) – Web MD
- ~ Hospital Stays Result in Over 720,000 Infections Yearly – Live Science
- ~ Hospital-Related Infections- Sixth Leading Cause of Death in USA – Hive Health Media
- ~ How HAIs lead to direct, indirect and unintended hospital costs – Becker’s Hospital Review
- ~ I Left The Hospital Sicker Than When I Went In. About one in every 25 hospital patients will acquire an infection during their stay, according to the CDC – Prevention
- ~ More People in the United States Dying from Antibiotic-Resistant Infections than Previously Estimated CDC Online Newsroom CD
- ~ Reduced rate of MDROs after introducing ‘water-free patient care’ on a large intensive care unit in the Netherlands – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control Journal
- ~ The most dangerous germs in the hospital may be those you bring with you – Science – AAAS
- ~ Top 10 Most Common Diseases Found in Hospitals – Nursing School Hub
- ~ Why Hospitals Underreport the Number of Patients They Infect – Stanford Graduate School of Business
Facts and Stats
- ~ HAI Data – CDC
- ~ HAI Data Portal – CDC
- ~ Healthcare-associated infections – HAI – CDC
- ~ Health Care-Associated Infections – health.gov
Reports