The Effect of Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection on In-Hospital Mortality | Zendy

Natalie Oake | Zendy; Monica Taljaard | Zendy; Carl van Walraven | Zendy; Kumanan Wilson | Zendy; Virginia Roth | Zendy; Alan J. Forster | Zendy

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The Effect of Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection on In-Hospital Mortality

Author(s) -

Natalie Oake,

Monica Taljaard,

Carl van Walraven,

Kumanan Wilson,

Virginia Roth,

Alan J. Forster

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.405

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , clostridium difficile , proportional hazards model , decile , confidence interval , emergency medicine , observational study , retrospective cohort study , statistics , mathematics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics

The effects of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) on patient outcomes are incompletely understood. We conducted this study to determine the independent impact of hospital-acquired CDI on in-hospital mortality after adjusting for the time-varying nature of CDI and baseline mortality risk at hospital admission.

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