Many Germans fear the hospital

A stay in the hospital is never pleasant. Many Germans fear even in front of it: Almost every third woman and every fourth man has a great fear of inpatient treatment. One thing that Worries many.

Women (32 per cent) worry more often than men (25 percent), before a hospital stay, so the current result of a Forsa-survey on behalf of the Commercial Krankenkasse (KKh) sub-1.002 persons. Every third of them justified his Fears, even with their own bad experiences. A large theme hospital germs: there is a risk of 81 percent of those who have Concerns about a hospital stay, with such pathogens in hospitals infect. Each Second provides before the need for re-Operation and complications of anesthesia. Also a possible poor wound healing and poor quality of the used medical products to play for 48 per cent of a role. Forgotten surgical instruments in the body and drug intolerance are for a reason, to Worry.

Therefore, it is not surprising that 84 percent of all respondents be informed, prior to a planned inpatient stay in more detail about your illness, treatment method, and the hospital. The majority of patients (79 percent) have questions, contact first your doctor. Three-quarters of the respondents also use the Internet for Research. Experiences from the circle of friends is a major source of information for two-thirds.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients infected in the hospital in Germany with multi-resistant germs. Dangerous such infections are especially for people with a weakened immune system. The pathogens in the hospital due to probes, catheters or surgery to penetrate a wounds in a weakened body, you can inflammation, among other things, severe pulmonary, Wound and urinary tract infections or blood cause poisoning.

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