114Case Mix Index Predicts Healthcare Facility Onset Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

115Comparison of Emerging Infections Program (EIP) and National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Datasets for Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)

115. Comparison of Emerging Infections Program (EIP) and National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Datasets for Surveillance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Erin C. Phipps, DVM; Susan Petit, MPH; Richard Rodriguez, MPH; Richard Melchreit, MD; New Mexico Emerging Infections Program, Albuquerque, NM; Connecticut Department of Public ...

An Assessment of 2016 National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) and National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Clostridium difficile Infections (CDI) in Nebraska

Crossing the quality chasm for Clostridium difficile infection prevention.

To cite: Safdar N, Perencevich E. BMJ Qual Saf 2015;24:409–411. Clostridium difficile, a spore-forming organism, causes as many as 25% of cases of healthcare-associated diarrhoea. In many developed countries, C. difficile infection (CDI) is now the most important healthcare-associated infection (HAI), suggesting an urgent need of strategies for effective containment. Recent studies on the impac...

Vital signs: preventing Clostridium difficile infections.

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a common and sometimes fatal health-care-associated infection; the incidence, deaths, and excess health-care costs resulting from CDIs in hospitalized patients are all at historic highs. Meanwhile, the contribution of nonhospital health-care exposures to the overall burden of CDI, and the ability of programs to prevent CDIs by implementing CDC...

Prevention of hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection in the New York metropolitan region using a collaborative intervention model.

The incidence, severity, and associated costs of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI) have dramatically increased in hospitals over the past decade, indicating an urgent need for strategies to prevent transmission of C. difficile. This article describes a multifaceted collaborative approach to reduce hospital-onset CDI rates in 35 acute care hospitals in the New York metropolita...