Clostridium difficile infections in Spanish Internal Medicine departments during the period 2005-2010: The burden of the disease;Infección por Clostridium difficile en el período 2005-2010 en los Servicios de Medicina Interna españoles: El peso de la enfermedad

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 16-21

  Marco Martínez, Javier ^a   Barba Martín, Raquel ^b   Plaza Canteli, Susana ^c   Canora Lebrato, Jesús ^d   Méndez Baillón, Manuel ^a   De Miguel Yanes, Jose M ^e   Zapatero Gaviria, Antonio ^d  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE FUENLABRADA   (Spain)

^e Hospital Del Sureste   (Spain)

Author keywords

Burden of illness; Clostridium difficile; Cost; Hospital mortality; Hospital readmission; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; ADULT; AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84921433719     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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