Summary
When hospital patients do not have their teeth brushed it can lead to them developing pneumonia—poor dental hygiene in hospital is believed to be a leading cause of hundreds of thousands of cases of pneumonia a year. In this blog for Medscape, reporter Brett Kelman looks at the link between dental hygiene and hospital-acquired pneumonia, which kills up to 30% of patients who are infected with it. He highlights a lack of understanding of the impact of failing to brush inpatients' teeth, in spite of a growing body of research evidence that links lack of adequate toothbrushing to pneumonia infection.
Blog - Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Yet there is a simple way to stop it (12 July 2022)
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/977009
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