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Complications of Hospital-Onset Healthcare Facility–Associated Clostridium difficile Infections Among Veterans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2016
Abstract
Complications within 30 days of a clinically confirmed hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection diagnosis from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2015, in 127 acute care Veterans Health Administration facilities were evaluated. Pooled rates for attributable intensive care unit admissions, colectomies, and deaths were 2.7%, 0.5%, and 0.4%, respectively.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;37:717–719
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