Infecting hospital staff with contagious awareness
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Infections picked up in hospital affect almost a third of patients in intensive care, and kill 44% of those people. Given that some infectious agents can linger for weeks or months it is increasingly important that staff awareness of the problem is improved and that training in infection prevention across the UK's National Health Service and in private healthcare is expanded, according to researchers.
