Impact of COVID-19 prevention measures on risk of health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection

Clostridium difficile is the most common pathogen between health care-associated infections and its incidence has increased during the last years. lack of enough evidence about effective hygiene interventions to prevent this disease. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) pandemic, several s...

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Autores principales: Bentivegna, Enrico, Alessio, Giuliano, Spuntarelli, Valerio, Luciani, Michelangelo, Santino, Iolanda, Simmaco, Maurizio, Martelletti, Paolo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33031863
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.09.010
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author Bentivegna, Enrico
Alessio, Giuliano
Spuntarelli, Valerio
Luciani, Michelangelo
Santino, Iolanda
Simmaco, Maurizio
Martelletti, Paolo
author_facet Bentivegna, Enrico
Alessio, Giuliano
Spuntarelli, Valerio
Luciani, Michelangelo
Santino, Iolanda
Simmaco, Maurizio
Martelletti, Paolo
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description Clostridium difficile is the most common pathogen between health care-associated infections and its incidence has increased during the last years. lack of enough evidence about effective hygiene interventions to prevent this disease. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) pandemic, several strategies to reduce microorganism spread were adopted in hospital setting. The objective of this study was to establish whether such strategies can reduce health care associated C difficile infection (HA-CDI) incidence. We found that, during the pandemic (2020) HA-CDI incidence was significantly lower with respect to the previous years. This work demonstrates that maintaining this level of attention regarding control activities related to prevention of microorganism transmission significantly reduce HA-CDI and related expenses in terms of health costs and human lives.
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spelling pubmed-75347872020-10-06 Impact of COVID-19 prevention measures on risk of health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection Bentivegna, Enrico Alessio, Giuliano Spuntarelli, Valerio Luciani, Michelangelo Santino, Iolanda Simmaco, Maurizio Martelletti, Paolo Am J Infect Control Brief Report Clostridium difficile is the most common pathogen between health care-associated infections and its incidence has increased during the last years. lack of enough evidence about effective hygiene interventions to prevent this disease. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) pandemic, several strategies to reduce microorganism spread were adopted in hospital setting. The objective of this study was to establish whether such strategies can reduce health care associated C difficile infection (HA-CDI) incidence. We found that, during the pandemic (2020) HA-CDI incidence was significantly lower with respect to the previous years. This work demonstrates that maintaining this level of attention regarding control activities related to prevention of microorganism transmission significantly reduce HA-CDI and related expenses in terms of health costs and human lives. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-05 2020-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7534787/ /pubmed/33031863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.09.010 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Spuntarelli, Valerio
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Santino, Iolanda
Simmaco, Maurizio
Martelletti, Paolo
Impact of COVID-19 prevention measures on risk of health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection
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title_fullStr Impact of COVID-19 prevention measures on risk of health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection
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title_short Impact of COVID-19 prevention measures on risk of health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection
title_sort impact of covid-19 prevention measures on risk of health care-associated clostridium difficile infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7534787/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.09.010
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