Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients Discharged from US Short-stay Hospitals, 1996–2003

By L. McDonald, M. Owings, D. Jernigan. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006

826 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Clinicians should be aware of the increasing risk of C. difficile–associated disease and make efforts to control its transmission.

Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases

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Citations in the corpus

• Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control in Acute-Care Settings (2011, background): “hospital discharges for which CDI was listed as a discharge diagnosis doubled from 82,000 in 1996 to 178,000 in 2003 (208).”
• Clostridium difficile--associated disease in a setting of endemicity: identification of novel risk factors. (2007, background): “ing [8, 9], but newly identified risk factors for these”
• Plasma medicine: an introductory review (2009, neutral): “One example is hospital acquired infections, also known as nosocomial infection, caused by mainly MRSA and Clostridium difficile among others [138, 139].”
• Development and Validation of a Clostridium difficile Infection Risk Prediction Model (2011, background): “Despite the breadth and depth of knowledge about risk factors available in the medical literature, healthcare facilities still struggle with outbreaks of CDI and increasing rates of disease.(4-7,9,18-20) Most CDI prevention and control strategies, such as the use of contact precautions and environme”
• The Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infections (2010, background): “Hospital Discharge Survey, representing 500 hospitals across the United States, revealed that the number of hospital discharges where CDI was listed had doubled between 1996 and 2003 (131).”
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). (2018, neutral): “Advanced age, potentially as a surrogate for severity of illness and comorbidities, is one of the most important risk factors for CDI [46, 96, 97], as is duration of hospitalization.”