The surgical service reported the following data for this month; calculate the postoperative infection rate, rounding to two decimal places.Number of surgical operations: 2,569Number of patients operated on: 2,563Number of postoperative infections: 12Number of postoperative deaths: 6

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


0.47

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