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Effect of a Clostridium difficile Infection Prevention Initiative in Veterans Affairs Acute Care Facilities
Martin E Evans1, Stephen M Kralovic2, Loretta A Simbartl2
11MRSA/MDRO Prevention Office,National Infectious Diseases Service,Patient Care Services,Veterans Health Administration,Washington, DC.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|February 12, 2016
Abstract:
Rates of clinically confirmed hospital-onset healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile infections from July 1, 2012, through March 31, 2015, in 127 acute care Veterans Affairs facilities were evaluated. Quarterly pooled national standardized infection ratios decreased 15% from baseline by the final quarter of the analysis period (P=.01, linear regression). Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;37:720-722.
