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Derek S Brown1, Margaret A Olsen2, Matthew R Keller2
1George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|January 25, 2024
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Using a life tables approach with 2011-2017 claims data, we calculated lifetime risks of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) beginning at age 18 years. The lifetime CDI risk rates were 32% in female patients insured by Medicaid, 10% in commercially insured male patients, and almost 40% in females with end-stage renal disease.
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