Correlations between bed occupancy rates and Clostridium difficile infections: A time-series analysis

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 482-485

  Kaier, K ^a,b   Luft, D ^a   Dettenkofer, M ^a   Kist, M ^a   Frank, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; infectious disease epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CROWDING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

BED OCCUPANCY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY;

EID: 79952456424     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810001214     Document Type: Article

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