Developing a Clinical Prediction Rule for First Hospital-Onset Clostridium difficile Infections: A Retrospective Observational Study

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 896-900

  Press, Anne ^a   Ku, Benson ^a   McCullagh, Lauren ^a   Rosen, Lisa ^b   Richardson, Safiya ^a   McGinn, Thomas ^a  

^a DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^b FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FORECASTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84979939289     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.97     Document Type: Article

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