Statewide experience with Clostridium difficile colitis in academic and non-academic medical centers

Surgical Infections

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 88-92

  Harbrecht, Brian G ^a   Franklin, Glen A ^a   Shirley, Robert M ^a   Smith, Jason W ^a   Miller, Frank B ^a   Richardson, J David ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON SURGERY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; REVIEW;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84859616933     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2009.033     Document Type: Review

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