Hospital Clostridium difficile infection testing rates: Is "Don't ask, don't tell" at play?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 911-912

  Brown, Kevin A ^a   Fisman, David N ^a   Daneman, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITAL; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 84902953006     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/676881     Document Type: Letter

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