Hospital transfer network structure as a risk factor for clostridium difficile infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1031-1037

  Simmering, Jacob E ^a   Polgreen, Linnea A ^a   Campbell, David R ^b   Cavanaugh, Joseph E ^a   Polgreen, Philip M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CALIFORNIA; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84958167701     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.130     Document Type: Article

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