Incidence of Clostridium difficile Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-344

  Rodemann, Joseph F ^a   Dubberke, Erik R ^a   Reske, Kimberly A ^a   Seo, Da Hea ^a   Stone, Christian D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33947105999     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2006.12.027     Document Type: Article

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