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80. Opioid Analgesics Are Associated with Increased Clostridioides difficile Infection Risk in a National Cohort of Veterans

BACKGROUND: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. Several drugs are known to increase CDI risk, although the association between opioids and CDI risk has not been clearly established. Opioid analgesics have gastrointestinal antimotility and...

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Autores principales: Young, Eric H, Lalani, Falak S, Reveles, Kelly R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6809252/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz359.004