Multicenter study of the impact of community-onset clostridium difficile infection on surveillance for C. difficile infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 518-525

  Dubberke, Erik R ^a   Butler, Anne M ^a   Hota, Bala ^b   Khan, Yosef M ^c   Mangino, Julie E ^c   Mayer, Jeanmarie ^d   Popovich, Kyle J ^b   Stevenson, Kurt B ^c   Yokoe, Deborah S ^e   Mcdonald, L Clifford ^f   Jernigan, John ^f   Fraser, Victoria J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EPIDEMIC; FECES CULTURE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651083561     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597380     Document Type: Article

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