Advisory Board August 31, 2020
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America’s coronavirus epidemic has stretched the country’s already thin workforce of infection preventionists and infectious disease physicians even further, leading some experts to worry that, as a result, hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) may be increasing, Maria Castellucci reports for Modern Healthcare.
A small field
The number of providers specializing in and focused on infectious diseases at hospitals is fairly small in America, according to Castellucci. In 2017, for instance, there were around 9,100 infectious disease physicians in the country—which was significantly lower than the numbers of physicians in some other specialties, such as the more than 42,000 emergency medicine physicians in the country that same year, Castellucci reports.
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