Posted AT 5:45 AM EST on 15/08/08
Hospitals beef up superbug safeguards
VANCOUVER — British Columbia hospitals are testing a Web-based version of a monitoring system aimed at earlier detection of C. difficile outbreaks such as the one that has killed three people in Nanaimo since April.
The electronic system, being tested at some sites this summer and expected to roll out to all hospitals this year, is an upgrade to a paper-based surveillance protocol launched last year in the wake of deadly C.
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