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		<title>Hospital-Acquired Infection Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long awaited New York State 2008 report on hospital-acquired infections was released today at a press conference held at Roosevelt Hospital. The law requiring the report took effect in mid-2006, but the first report issued in 2007 did not by design provide the names of hospitals. The 2007 report did provide aggregate rates for the state by region and type and size of hospital, thus establishing a baseline for trending purposes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2696&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heartburn Drugs Overused In Hospital Patients Not at Risk for Stress Ulcers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acid-reflux drugs like Nexium and Zantac, which suppress stomach acid, are among the most widely prescribed in the country.  Their use has been steadily increasing among hospital patients, often for indications that have no supporting scientific evidence.  Between 40% and 70% now receive some version of these acid-suppressive drugs, also known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), during a hospital stay.  A new study, published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that they have a higher incidence of pneumonia than hospital patients not given these drugs. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2308&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals Compared</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/06/01/hospitals-compared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “more is better” approach to American health care has been challenged consistently over the last 15 years by research compiled by two Dartmouth Medical School physicians. As reported in previous issues of HealthFacts, these researchers have studied the care given to Medicare patients in the last two years of life and shown that more tests, more procedures, more specialist care, more days in the hospital do not lead to a longer life or a better quality of life.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1140&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital-Acquired Infection&#8230;and What To Do About It</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2008/02/01/hospital-acquired-infectionand-what-to-do-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kills more than five times as many Americans as AIDS? Betsy McCaughey, PhD, chairman and founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) wants you to know that it is hospital infections, specifically a bacterium called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA infections are far more difficult to treat than ordinary Staph infections because they are resistant to most types of antibiotics.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1136&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yogurt Drink Prevents Antibiotic-Induced Diarrhea</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/07/08/yogurt-drink-prevents-antibiotic-induced-diarrhea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A yogurt drink sold in many supermarkets has been shown to reduce the risk of severe diarrhea that can occur after taking antibiotics. The study, published last month in the British Medical Journal Online First, was conducted at several hospitals, a setting where people are most likely to be exposed to drug-resistant strains of bacteria.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=1092&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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