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uranmaximum [27]
3 years ago
10

A patient who has had heart surgery develops an infection at the site of his surgical wound. There are about 300,000 instances o

f this type of infection every year and it kills as many as 13,000 people each year. The total cost to hospitals in this country is $7 billion dollars. What is the cost for each of these infections?
Medicine
1 answer:
ruslelena [56]3 years ago
6 0

Around $23,300 per patient.

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