Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Is Killing Patients. Yet There Is a Simple Way to Stop It.

In hospitals across the country, a leading cause of death is non ventilator hospital acquired pneumonia (NVHAP). NVHAP kills about 30% of those it infects, but it may be widely prevented by an amazingly simple fix: making sure that patients brush their teeth.

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