see, i love numbers. especially meaningless ones.
Yes, lots of people get fatal infections in the hospital. They were there because they were immunocompromised in the first place. Think the very elderly...who go in because of some other serious injury, take a long time to heal because of their age, and in that time catch something else. Is that really the fault of the hospital, or simply the reality that they're susceptible to illness at an advanced age?
Complications happen. Some of them are truely preventable. But if you granny to have her hip set after a fall, that's going to mean hospital time...and that's always a risk. That number is opportunity cost, not compared to the alternative. If a hospital saves a million, but lets 100 die, was that worth it?
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