Varying rates of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea at prevention epicenter hospitals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 676-679

  Sohn, Sejean ^a   Climo, Michael ^b   Diekema, Daniel ^c   Fraser, Victoria ^d   Herwaldt, Loreen ^c   Marino, Susan ^e   Noskin, Gary ^f   Perl, Trish ^g   Song, Xiaoyan ^g   Tokars, Jerome ^h   Warren, David ^d   Wong, Edward ^b   Yokoe, Deborah S ^e   Zembower, Theresa ^f   Sepkowitz, Kent A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; UNITED STATES;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23844438355     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502601     Document Type: Article

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