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Hospital-Acquired Infections: When It’s Malpractice

Yet every day, patients across Illinois develop new infections they did not have when they were admitted. Public-health data has long shown that on any given day roughly one in every 31 hospital patients has at least one health-care-associated infection.

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Yet every day, patients across Illinois develop new infections they did not have when they were admitted.

Public-health data has long shown that on any given day roughly one in every 31 hospital patients has at least one health-care-associated infection.

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Yet every day, patients across Illinois develop new infections they did not have when they were admitted. Public-health data has long shown that on any given day roughly one in every 31 hospital patients has at least one health-care-associated infection. You go to a hospital to get better, not to get sick.

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You go to a hospital to get better, not to get sick.

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