A hospital rating company reports that regional and community medical centers do a much better job at preventing hospital-acquired infections and complications that can result in fatalities. Preventable complications or hospital-acquired infections kill 100,000 people each year. The rigor many tertiary care centers foster in the world of academic medicine may be the culprit, as the rather mundane task of creating and maintaining systems of checks and balances often is perceived to be a less than glamorous activity. The administratively rote nature of providing acute hospital-based algorithms for the safety and preventable deaths of all hospital inpatients is just not as sexy as trumpeting the singular life saved by treating that one rare and exotic illness. | PDF LINK

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