Patients' experience and perception of hospital-treated clostridium difficile infections: A qualitative study

Patient

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 97-105

  Guillemin, Isabelle ^a   Marrel, Alexia ^a   Lambert, Jérémy ^a   Beriot Mathiot, Axelle ^b   Doucet, Carole ^b   Kazoglou, Odysseas ^b   Luxemburger, Christine ^b   Reygrobellet, Camille ^b   Arnould, Benoit ^a  

^a MAPI Institute   (France)

^b SANOFI PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIET; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FEVER; HAND WASHING; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LONELINESS; LOSS OF APPETITE; MALE; NAUSEA; PATIENT WORRY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHAME; SOCIAL LIFE; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME;

ADULT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84899060457     PISSN: 11781653     EISSN: 11781661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40271-013-0043-y     Document Type: Article

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