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499. Determining Risk of Clostridium difficile Using Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data

BACKGROUND: Hospitals may now be penalized for Clostridium difficile infection diagnosed after hospital day 3, which are classified as “hospital-onset” (HO) regardless of existence of true disease. Highly sensitive PCR-based testing has made this additionally problematic. As part of a C. difficile t...

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Autores principales: Drees, Marci, Ewen, Edward F, Winiarz, Michael, Eppes, Stephen
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/PMC6254760/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.508