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diarrhea: a neglected nosocomial hazard? 19912071876
predicting the risk of clostridium difficile infection following an outpatient visit: development and external validation of a pragmatic, prognostic risk score.increasing morbidity related to clostridium difficile infection (cdi) has heightened interest in the identification of patients who would most benefit from recognition of risk and intervention. we sought to develop and validate a prognostic risk score to predict cdi risk for individual patients following an outpatient healthcare visit. we assembled a cohort of kaiser permanente northwest (kpnw) patients with an index outpatient visit between 2005 and 2008, and identified cdi in the year followin ...201525658533
clostridium difficile infection, colorado and the northwestern united states, 2007.to determine the incidence of clostridium difficile infection during 2007, we examined infection in adult inpatient and outpatient members of a managed-care organization. incidence was 14.9 c. difficile infections per 10,000 patient-years. extrapolating this rate to us adults, we estimate that 284,875 c. difficile infections occurred during 2007.201222608207
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