Open Access<p>Incidence Of <em>Clostridium difficile</em> Infection And Associated Risk Factors Among Hospitalized Children In Qatar</p>
Author(s) -
Ahmed Khalil,
Mohamed A. Hendaus,
Emad Bashier Ibrahim Elmagboul,
Asmaa Mohamed,
Anand Deshmukh,
Ahmed Elmasoudi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
therapeutics and clinical risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1178-203X
pISSN - 1176-6336
DOI - 10.2147/tcrm.s229540
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , clostridium difficile , logistic regression , pediatrics , univariate analysis , risk factor , retrospective cohort study , antibiotics , multivariate analysis , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , optics , biology
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the single most common cause of nosocomial diarrhea in both adults and children. There is a deficiency in the literature regarding the incidence and associated risk factors in hospitalized children. This study aimed to determine the incidence of CDI and its associated risk factors.