ALBANY — Every day will be casual Friday in New York’s hospitals if some state lawmakers get their way.

Four Democratic senators, led by Sen. Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx), want to make doctors ditch their neckties, wristwatches and other accessories — even their iconic white coats — to halt the spread of deadly bacteria.

“What your doctor wears around his or her neck can literally make you sick,” Klein said.

The legislation, which the senators will detail at a news conference today in Albany, would appoint an expert commission to draft germ-reducing dress codes for docs and other health-care workers and discourage the wearing of rarely cleaned accessories that studies have found to harbor diseases.

The push comes amid growing concern about patient deaths, lawsuits and rising malpractice that stem from hospital-acquired — and often drug-resistant — infections.

Several studies have cited doctors’ clothing as a potential carrier of diseases, including MRSA. Nearly half of the ties worn by the staff at Queens Hospital were found to carry disease-causing bacteria in one 2004 study.

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