Open AccessPotential for the current National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) >3 days after admission definition of laboratory-identified, healthcare-facility–onset, Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) to overestimate rates
Author(s) -
Shruti Puri,
Heather Hughes,
Monica D McCrackin,
Robert Williford,
Mulugeta Gebregziabher,
Cassandra D. Salgado,
Scott Curry
Publication year - 2020
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.2020.3
Subject(s) - clostridioides , c difficile , medicine , health care , emergency medicine , clostridium difficile , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics , economics , economic growth
Healthcare-facility-onset C.difficile LabID events are defined as positive stool samples collected >3 days after hospitalization. Using a definition of >72 hours, we found that 84 of 1013 cases (8.3%) identified as C. difficile LabID events were collected between 48 and 72 hours after admission.