Open AccessExternal Validation and Comparison of Clostridioides difficile Severity Scoring Systems
Author(s) -
D. Alexander Perry,
Daniel Shirley,
Dejan Micic,
Chaitali Patel,
Rosemary Putler,
Anitha Me,
Vincent B. Young,
Krishna Rao
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciab737
Subject(s) - medicine , cohort , guideline , intensive care unit , retrospective cohort study , receiver operating characteristic , cohort study , clostridium difficile , clostridioides , emergency medicine , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics
Many models have been developed to predict severe outcomes from Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). These models are usually developed at a single institution and largely are not externally validated. Our aim in this study was to validate previously published risk scores in a multicenter cohort of patients with CDI.