Open AccessHospital-level high-risk antibiotic use in relation to hospital-associated Clostridioides difficile infections: Retrospective analysis of 2016–2017 data from US hospitals
Author(s) -
Ying P. Tabak,
Arjun Srinivasan,
Kalvin Yu,
Stephen G. Kurtz,
Vikas Gupta,
Steven P Gelone,
Patrick Scoble,
L. Clifford McDonald
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
infection control and hospital epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.243
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1559-6834
pISSN - 0899-823X
DOI - 10.1017/ice.2019.236
Subject(s) - clostridioides , medicine , retrospective cohort study , antibiotics , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Antibiotics are widely used by all specialties in the hospital setting. We evaluated previously defined high-risk antibiotic use in relation to Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs).