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Alain Star - 15 Apr 2005 15:48 GMT

Did you know that almost 10% of people who spend time in United-Kingdom
hospitals contact a nosocomial infection? (443,166 cases for 60,270,708
inhabitants)

Would you like to risk such a drama, for you, for your kids? NO

Check for the proper hospital to go to: HealthGrades -
http://cri.ch/news/healthgrades/

AS

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Coffin Dodger - 15 Apr 2005 16:56 GMT

> Did you know that almost 10% of people who spend time in United-Kingdom
> hospitals contact a nosocomial infection? (443,166 cases for 60,270,708
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> AS

How are details of hospitals in the USA going to be of help to UK citizens?

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Mark Probert - 15 Apr 2005 17:04 GMT

> Did you know that almost 10% of people who spend time in United-Kingdom
> hospitals contact a nosocomial infection? (443,166 cases for 60,270,708
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> Check for the proper hospital to go to: HealthGrades -
> http://cri.ch/news/healthgrades/

Hmmm...

Using you numbers, that would be 0.73529250726571853113124206206438%.

Back to school for you.

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Caledonia - 15 Apr 2005 23:29 GMT

Mark Probert wrote in message:

> > Did you know that almost 10% of people who spend time in United-Kingdom
> > hospitals contact a nosocomial infection? (443,166 cases for 60,270,708
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> Back to school for you.

Second that. Healthgrades is limited to U.S. hospitals anyway.

(Healthgrades mines the (free) CMS data and the (free) state
utilization data to sell (not free) reports that don't really differ
from the (free) reports on hospital quality that U.S. consumers can get
on medicare.gov., or via state look-ups of MDs that are happily
UPIN-specific.)

Caledonia

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Mark Probert - 16 Apr 2005 13:13 GMT

> Mark Probert wrote in message:
> > > Did you know that almost 10% of people who spend time in
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> on medicare.gov., or via state look-ups of MDs that are happily
> UPIN-specific.)

Good thing they do not try to do their own math. Obviously, they cannot add
2+2.

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Coffin Dodger - 16 Apr 2005 05:53 GMT

"Alain Star" advised us that:

> Did you know that almost 10% of people who spend time in United-Kingdom
> hospitals contact a nosocomial infection? (443,166 cases for 60,270,708
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>
> AS

In the USA, rates of MRSA bacteraemia are high, increasing and somewhat
comparable to the UK.
See http://tinyurl.com/bvags

Why would I want to travel to the USA to get MRSA?

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tech27 - 16 Apr 2005 16:36 GMT

> Why would I want to travel to the USA to get MRSA?

You might not "want" to, but there are differences, (such as a different
accent), and those infected are treated very differently, to wit:

1-they are not allowed on public transport
2-they can only eat buns
3-they have to wash themselves in a very peculiar way.

(-;

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Coffin Dodger - 16 Apr 2005 20:05 GMT

"tech27" advised us that:

> You might not "want" to, but there are differences, (such as a different
> accent), and those infected are treated very differently, to wit:
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> (-;

And about time. I have been advocating those measures for many years but no
one would listen.

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tech27 - 16 Apr 2005 20:44 GMT

> "tech27" advised us that:
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> And about time. I have been advocating those measures for many years but
> no one would listen.

Precisely. Completely unlike the time a paederast was graphed onto an
Anglican bishop. But that was the ignorance of the press.

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