Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ...
by dmix on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:22PM
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Strange, so that basically refutes the a pretty core point of the article (that it isn't being tracked).
The reason they said doctors don't put it on death records is because they dont always want to wait the 2-3 days it takes to get results back from the labs. So it makes way more sense that the labs record the bugs. Instead of doctors in the field.
Those are the people who are trained to detect the bugs... so they should be responsible for tracking them. I presume they could get indications from the doctors on whether the patients died as well.
Couldn't the doctors update death records after-the-fact? If they found out afterwards what the actual cause of death was, they should really being recording that.
The reason they said doctors don't put it on death records is because they dont always want to wait the 2-3 days it takes to get results back from the labs. So it makes way more sense that the labs record the bugs. Instead of doctors in the field.
Those are the people who are trained to detect the bugs... so they should be responsible for tracking them. I presume they could get indications from the doctors on whether the patients died as well.
Couldn't the doctors update death records after-the-fact? If they found out afterwards what the actual cause of death was, they should really being recording that.