Clostridium difficile Infection in Texas Hospitals, 2007-2011. Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. We examined the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) for hospitalizations in Texas and estimated the incremental impact of CDI on mortality, length of stay, and costs. For patients hospitalized for other conditions or procedures, CDI may result in higher mortality risk, additional costs, and longer lengths of stay. However, little is known about these incremental impacts from observational data. This study uses publicly available inpatient discharge data from Texas to estimate these impacts. Texas was selected for study owing to the large number of hospitals, geographic and demographic diversity of hospitalized patients, and recent population growth in Texas.

authors

• Radcliff, Tiffany
• Zhao, Hongwei

published proceedings

• Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

author list (cited authors)

• Radcliff, T. A., Lorden, A. L., & Zhao, H.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Radcliff, Tiffany A||Lorden, Andrea L||Zhao, Hongwei

publication date

• March 2016

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Clostridioides Difficile
• Clostridium Infections
• Hospital Mortality
• Hospitals
• Humans
• Length Of Stay
• Texas

PubMed Central ID

• 26651237

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/ice.2015.291

start page

• 357

end page

• 359

volume

• 37

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2015.291