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Amid increasing sensational press exposés and consumer advocates demanding release of hospital infection rates, comes this cold truth from a leading public health official: Health care-associated infections are fraught with so many variables that epidemiologists don’t really know how many occur and how many can be prevented.

Between the unknown and the uninformed