Sharing a hospital room increases dramatically the risk of being contaminated by an infection, according to a study by Dr. Dick Zoutman's team at Queen University, Ontario, Canada. The costs for treating these infection are so high for hospitals, that It would be far less expensive to build more private rooms. ADVIN asks: the next time that you will be hospitalized, are you going to be informed that your risk to be contaminated by a hospital infection is 30% higher if you share your room?
At least, all new hospital should only be built with individual rooms. The infections that were studied - C. difficile, MRSA and VRE - are not airborne, but spread by contact.
The study was published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
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