The Attributable Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection to Long-Term Care Facilities Stay: A Clinical Study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1733-1740

  Karanika, Styliani ^a   Grigoras, Christos ^a   Flokas, Myrto E ^a   Alevizakos, Michail ^a   Kinamon, Tori ^a   Kojic, Erna M ^a   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile Infection; long term care facilities; matched cohort study; prevalence; severity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOCARDITIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 85016474804     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14863     Document Type: Article

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