Quantifying sources of bias in national healthcare safety network laboratory-identified clostridium difficile infection rates

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Haley, Valerie B ^a   DiRienzo, A Gregory ^b   Lutterloh, Emily C ^a,b   Stricof, Rachel L ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890368001     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674389     Document Type: Article

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