Prevalence and clinical outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection in the intensive care unit: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Karanika, Styliani ^a   Paudel, Suresh ^a   Zervou, Fainareti N ^a   Grigoras, Christos ^a   Zacharioudakis, Ioannis M ^a   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C difficile infection; ICU; Length of stay; Meta analysis; Mortality

Indexed keywords

APACHE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; META ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 85000673426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv186     Document Type: Article

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