Resumen de Beating back the bugs.
The article discusses how some hospitals are combating hospital-acquired infections. Topics include a brief overview of hospital-acquired deaths in the U.S. annually and efforts by some U.S. hospitals to fight hospital-acquired infections, such as the rural hospital Claxton-Hepbum Medical Center in Ogdensburg, New York, which has eradicated ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients requiring mechanical ventilation.
