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Basic Safeguards—Like Replacing Privacy Curtains—Could Prevent Thousands of Hospital Infections, Experts Say

New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked safeguards are increasingly becoming weak links in patient safety—contributing to the stubbornly high rate of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 31 hospital patients on any given […]