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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Did you know that 28% Doctors not washing after seeing patients?



Canada - Just 28 per cent of doctors at 10 hospitals washed their hands between patients, Ontario's auditor general says in a special report into deadly outbreaks of hospital superbugs like C. difficile. And that was an improvement from a starting rate of 18 per cent because it came at the end of a recent pilot project to encourage handwashing in efforts to cut infection and death rates. "The doctors were the lowest," Auditor General James McCarter said yesterday, noting the handwashing rate for nurses rose to 60 per cent from 44. more

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