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No one expects the hospital to make them sicker.
But too often, that's exactly what happens.
In a 2008 press release, the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association of Canada (CHICA-Canada) estimated that 250,000 people in Canada contract an infection in a hospital each year.
And of those people, 9,000 to 12,000 die.
According to a 2002 point prevalence study conducted by the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, surgical site infections accounted for more than 20% of all hospital-acquired infections—more than bloodstream infections or C. difficile.
Follow these links to learn about surgical site infections, what hospitals and healthcare facilities are doing to prevent them and which new medical device can help reduce surgical site infections by up to 85%:
