A Successful Strategy to Reduce Hospital-Onset Clostridium difficile

BACKGROUND: Our goal was to reduce the rate of hospital-onset (HO) C. difficile (CD) by prompt testing in patients with diarrhea on hospital day (HD) 1–3 using a nurse-driven testing protocol (NTP) with PCR and improve identification of disease after HD 3 using a combined toxin/antigen assay (TAA)....

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Autores principales: Bruno-Murtha, Lou Ann, Osgood, Rebecca, Alexandre, Casey, Mahmood, Rumel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630741/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1017

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630741/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1017

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