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Ten Steps to Preventing Infection in Hospitals

By Stephanie Simon, Wall Street Journal

The facts are frightening: As many as one in 10 patients hospitalized in the U.S. will come down with an infection—often due to the very care that is supposed to be restoring health.

These infections afflict nearly two million patients a year, cause close to 100,000 deaths and cost up to $6.5 billion.

But they are not inevitable.

Here are 10 ways to prevent infection in health-care settings—a list gleaned from conversations with doctors, nurses, administrators, the nonprofit Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

We've divided the list into two parts: first, promising new technologies, and second, a look at back-to-basics techniques that many hospitals have reinvigorated, with great success.

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