Antimicrobial prescribing practices in response to different Clostridium difficile diagnostic methodologies

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1133-1136

  Sydnor, Emily R M ^a   Lenhart, Abigail ^b   Trollinger, Brandon ^c   Avdic, Edina ^c   Maragakis, Lisa L ^a   Carroll, Karen C ^a   Cosgrove, Sara E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE CYTOTOXICITY NEUTRALIZATION ASSAY; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICATION ERROR; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DECISION MAKING; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; ENTEROTOXINS; FECES; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VANCOMYCIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054866130     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662381     Document Type: Article

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