High Variability in Nosocomial Clostridium difficile Infection Rates Across Hospitals after Colorectal Resection

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 323-331

  Aquina, Christopher T ^a   Probst, Christian P ^a   Becerra, Adan Z ^a   Hensley, Bradley J ^a   Iannuzzi, James C ^a   Noyes, Katia ^a   Monson, John R T ^a   Fleming, Fergal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Colorectal surgery; Health services research; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM RESECTION; RISK FACTOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED STATES; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS INFECTION; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS INFECTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGEONS;

EID: 84962557706     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000000539     Document Type: Article

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