Question 1. A total of 1.750 discharges (including deaths) were recorded during the previous year. During that time, a total of 43 nosocomial infections were recorded. What is the nosocomial infection rate? How does identifying the nosocomial infection rate benefit our hospitals? What might be a way to decrease the nosocomial infection rates?
2. If 900.000 people are living with diabetes a year, and the U.S. population is 290 million, what is the prevalence of diabetes?
Question 3. What are the differences between nosocomial and community-acquired infections?
Question 4. If the number of new cases of meningitis was 23,300 in the United States when the population in the middle of the year was reported at 310 million, what is the incidence of meningitis?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length each of question.