Identification of medicare recipients at highest risk for clostridium difficile infection in the US by population attributable risk analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Dubberke, Erik R ^a   Olsen, Margaret A ^a   Stwalley, Dustin ^a   Kelly, Ciarán P ^b   Gerding, Dale N ^c,d   Young Xu, Yinong ^e   Mahé, Cedric ^f  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f SANOFI PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959144376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146822     Document Type: Article

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