Electronically Available Comorbid Conditions for Risk Prediction of Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection

Prevention of healthcare‐associated Clostridium difficile infection: what works?

Prevention of Clostridium difficile infection has become extremely important because of increases in its incidence and severity. Unfortunately, efforts at C. difficile infection prevention are hampered by lack of data to support optimal prevention methods, especially for endemic C. difficile infection. Studies are needed to define the optimal prevention practices and to investigate novel preven...

Risk factors for healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

1305. External validation of predictive scores for mortality following Clostridium difficile infection Catherine Beauregard-Paultre, MD; Claire Nour Abou Chakra, PhD; Allison Mcgeer, MD, MSc; Annie-Claude Labbé, MD; Andrew E. Simor, MD, FRCPC, FACP; Wayne Gold, MD; Matthew P. Muller, MD, PhD, FRCPC; Jeff Powis, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Kevin Katz, MD, CM, MSc, FRCPC; Suzanne Cadarette, PhD; Jacques Pépi...

Risk Factors for Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection in Children

Risk Factors for Recurrent Pedatric Community Associated Clostridium difficile Infection

Risk Factors for Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection in Children.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the medication and other exposures associated with pediatric community-associated Clostridium difficile infections (CA-CDIs). STUDY DESIGN We performed a case-control study using billing records from the US military health system database. CA-CDI cases included children 1-18 years of age with an outpatient International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Cli...