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The statistical cost of hospital-associated infection
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One in every 20 patients contracts an infection in the hospital, causing 99,000 deaths each year.1 |
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An estimated 1.7 million healthcare-associated infections in U.S. hospitals each year cost the industry $30 billion annually.2 |
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Each healthcare-associated infection
costs hospitals from $10,500 to
$111,000 per case, adjusted to
2004 dollars.3 |
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Staphylococcus aureus stays in the United States result in an estimated 2.7 million days in excess length of stay, close to 12,000 inpatient deaths per year and $9.5 billion in excess charges.4 |
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Data from intensive care unit patients in the United States show that 28% of the bacteria that most frequently causes hospital-acquired infections are resistant to the preferred antibiotics for treatment.5 |
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Epidemics associated with emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are now occurring in historically unprecedented numbers. Since 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) has verified more than 1100 epidemics of international importance.6 |
Senior healthcare executives state that sterile rooms are desired for high value and high consequence areas*:
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Operating and intensive care rooms
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Rooms involved with immunocompromised patients
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Rooms housing patients known to have infections (prior to next patient) |
Equipment that moves
between rooms, departments
and facilities
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More than 70% of respondents believed that contaminated environments and or equipment are significant contributors to infection rates.*
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Source: Testimonial Statement by Denise Cardo, M.D. Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2/29/2006 |
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Source: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, published in Aging & Elder Health Week, 9/4/2005. |
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Source: World Health Organization |
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Independent Research with 200 Senior Healthcare Executives |
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The VaproSure Sterilizer and Vaprox® Hydrogen Peroxide Sterilant are not for use as a terminal sterilant for medical device sterilization or reprocessing and should not be used to reprocess devices to make them patient ready. |
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