Nation IN BRIEF : MASSACHUSETTS : Care Workers Cited for Uncleanliness
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Most health care workers do not wash their hands before examining patients, which may help explain why hospital patients develop infections that cost up to $10 billion a year to cure, according to a study that appears in the New England Journal of Medicine in Boston. Researchers at the University of Iowa Hospital found only three of five workers in the intensive care unit scrubbed up, although they knew they were being watched.
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