Standard Precautions are followed in hospitals because
A) most patients in hospitals are not a source of disease.
B) hospitals are extremely clean and thus special precautions are not required.
C) antibiotics cure most infections and so they are readily treated.
D) infectious patients do not always have obvious signs and symptoms.
E) it is important for patient care to be standardised.
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