Hospitals step up fight against infections

Hospitals are encountering virulent infections that sicken the very patients they're trying to help. According to patient advocacy groups, hospitals could do more to prevent infections, including a simple test.

Guests

• Betsy McCaughey: Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of the state of New York. She joins us by phone from New York.
• Leslie Baken: Chairman of infectious diseases, Park Nicollet Health Services.
• Carlene Muto: Assistant professor in infectious diseases and director of infection control for UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Resources

• About Leslie Baken
• About Carlene Muto
• Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths
• Institute of Medicine: To Err is Human To Build a Safer Health System