Clostridium difficile infection after cardiac surgery: Prevalence, morbidity, mortality, and resource utilization

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3157-3165.e5

  Keshavamurthy, Suresh ^a   Koch, Colleen G ^a   Fraser, Thomas G ^a   Gordon, Steven M ^a   Houghtaling, Penny L ^a   Soltesz, Edward G ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Pettersson, Gösta B ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; TOXIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; ENDOCARDITIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANCOLITIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TOXIC COLITIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; COLON RESECTION; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVALENCE; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVOR; TIME; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OHIO; PREVALENCE; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS; REGISTRIES; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84919968658     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.08.017     Document Type: Article

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