Clostridium difficile infection is associated with poor outcomes in end-stage renal disease

Journal of Investigative Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 529-532

  Pant, Chaitanya ^a   Deshpande, Abhishek ^b   Anderson, Michael P ^c   Sferra, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile infection; End stage renal disease; Hospital charges; Length of stay; Mortality; Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 84856702818     PISSN: 17088267     EISSN: 17088267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/JIM.0b013e318242b313     Document Type: Article

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