By IDSE News Staff
An inexpensive tool may help reduce rates of pneumonia for hospitalized patients (JAMA Intern Med 2023 Dec 18. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6638).
A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute examined whether daily toothbrushing among hospitalized patients would be associated with lower rates of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP).