Optimum timing of blood tests for monitoring patients with clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea

Journal of Investigative Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 621-624

  Bhangu, Aneel ^a   Czapran, Adam ^a   Bhangu, Sonia ^a   Pillay, Devadas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Diarrhea; Hospital acquired infection; Monitoring; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SURVIVOR;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CREATININE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950684835     PISSN: 17088267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/JIM.0b013e3181d5d9e0     Document Type: Article

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