The recent increase in cases of nosocomial infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus “should be a wake-up call for everybody,” Sen. Clinton said. “A couple of hospitals I'm aware of have changed their infection control policies; they have cut the rate of hospital-borne infections. Everybody should be expected to do that.
“When you look at some of the disparities and disorganization, it's because we don't have a good system to disseminate evidence-based clinically proven treatments,” she continued. “It takes 17 years for something that is proven in the lab to be broadly disseminated. It should take 17 hours—17 seconds. With the Internet, why are we so far behind?”
If we can't quickly increase the number of primary care physicians, we need more advanced practice nurses. SEN. CLINTON