Reports by Consumers

Consumer Reports believes hospitals can do a better job of managing infections.

“Some of them are doing a better job than others at preventing infections,” said Lisa McGiffert, coordinator of the Stop Hospital Infections Project at Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. “They all need to improve. Any hospital doing average or the same as everyone else, that’s not good enough.”

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