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A Protocol to Characterize the Morphological Changes of Clostridium difficile in Response to Antibiotic Treatment
Published on: May 25, 2017
Implementing automated surveillance for tracking Clostridium difficile infection at multiple healthcare facilities
Erik R Dubberke1, Humaa A Nyazee, Deborah S Yokoe
1Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. edubberk@dom.wustl.edu
Abstract:
Automated surveillance using electronically available data has been found to be accurate and save time. An automated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) surveillance algorithm was validated at 4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenter hospitals. Electronic surveillance was highly sensitive, specific, and showed good to excellent agreement for hospital-onset; community-onset, study facility-associated; indeterminate; and recurrent CDI.
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