Postoperative burden of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-46

  Abdelsattar, Zaid M ^a   Krapohl, Greta ^a   Alrahmani, Layan ^b   Banerjee, Mousumi ^a   Krell, Robert W ^a   Wong, Sandra L ^a   Campbell, Darrell A ^a   Aronoff, David M ^c   Hendren, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE RESECTION; LEG AMPUTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AMPUTATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; LOWER LIMB; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMPUTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENDOCRINE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84922801718     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2014.8     Document Type: Article

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