The surgical service reported the following data for this month; calculate the postoperative infection rate, rounding to two decimal places
Number of surgical operations: 2,569
Number of patients operated on: 2,563
Number of postoperative infections: 12
Number of postoperative deaths: 6
0.47%
0.47?
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