A pregnant woman has told you she is fearful of delivering in a hospital because of the possibility of infection. You would analyze her comment in relationship to which true statement below?
A) Delivery at home avoids the possibility of infection for the mother or infant.
B) Hospital births are conducted with more safeguards for sterility than home births tend to use.
C) Hospitals today have eradicated nosocomial infections in nurseries.
D) Since the turn of the century, hospitals have no longer worried about infection.
B
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