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NATIONAL Action PLAN TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS: ROAD MAP TO ELIMINATION. APRIL 2013. part 1: Executive summary , metrics , and goals . I. INTRODUCTION. A. Magnitude of the Problem Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are infections that people acquire while they are receiving treatment for medical or surgical conditions in a health care setting. HAIs can be acquired anywhere health care is delivered. Hospital-acquired HAIs are among the leading causes of death in the United States. At any given time, about one in every 20 hospitalized patients has an HAI, while over one million HAIs occur across health care every year. Hospital- acquired HAIs alone are responsible for $28 billion to $33 billion in potentially preventable health care expenditures annually.
NATIONAL ACTION PLAN TO PREVENT HEALTH CARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS: ROAD MAP TO ELIMINATION APRIL 2013 PART 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, METRICS, AND GOALS I. I NTRODUCTION A. Magnitude of the Problem Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are infections that people acquire while they are
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