MEDICAL FACTS:
- About 1 out of every 20 hospitalized patients will contract a health care-associated infection.
- An estimated 1.7 million people got HAIs in U.S. hospitals and an estimated 98,987 died as a result in 2002, the most current year data are available.
- Each year, more than 2 million people in the United States are sickened with antibiotic-resistant infections, and at least 23,000 die as a result. These infections are transmitted in many ways, including person-to-person contact in the community, contact with contaminated food and contact within a health care facility.
- The use of antibiotics is the most important factor leading to antibiotic resistance because bacteria with immunity to the drugs eventually evolve.
- Up to 50 percent of all antibiotics prescribed are not needed or are not optimally effective as prescribed.
ISOLATION SIGN FACTS:
- Save medical care facilities $$$$ by raising awareness to wash hands and practice isolation protocol
- Reduce patient's hospital stay
- No installation required
- No in-service required
- Reusable
- Easy to store
- Can be bleached and zapped with UV light
- Made of long lasting, durable plastic with beveled edges to reduce any trip hazard
- Immediate impact before entering a patient's room