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Ambulatory surgical centers -- places where you can have certain
surgeries and go home just hours later -- may need to improve their
infection-control practices to safeguard patients, researchers
warn. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study
that sampled ambulatory surgical centers in three states found that
68 percent of those centers had at least one lapse in infection
control, and 18 percent had lapses in three or more out of five
infection-control categories, according to the study.
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