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973. Inter-facility Patient Sharing and Clostridium difficile Incidence in the Ontario Hospital Network: A 13-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study of 116 Hospitals

BACKGROUND: Inter-facility patient movement plays an important role in the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance and C. difficile infection (CDI) throughout healthcare systems. However, the relative performance of different patient sharing metrics for predicting CDI incidence is not known. We co...

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Autores principales: Brown, Kevin, Daneman, Nick, Schwartz, Kevin, Langford, Bradley, Johnstone, Jennie, Adomako, Kwaku, Etches, Jacob, Garber, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6252980/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.089