Multicenter study of Clostridium difficile infection rates from 2000 to 2006

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1030-1037

  Dubberke, Erik R ^a   Butler, Anne M ^a   Yokoe, Deborah S ^b   Mayer, Jeanmarie ^c   Hota, Bala ^d   Mangino, Julie E ^e   Khan, Yosef M ^e   Popovich, Kyle J ^f   Fraser, Victoria J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957882527     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656245     Document Type: Article

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