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CHICAGO - A new federal study finds many same-day surgery centers — where patients get such things as foot operations and pain injections — have serious problems with infection control.
Failure to wash hands, wear gloves and clean blood glucose meters were among the reported breaches. Clinics reused devices meant for one person or dipped into single-dose medicine vials for multiple patients.
The findings, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest lax infection practices may pervade the nation's more than 5,000 outpatient centers, experts said.
