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The Effect of a Clinical Pathway on Reducing the Rate of Healthcare-Onset Clostridioides difficile

INTRODUCTION: Stool assays used to diagnose Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) do not differentiate acute CDI from asymptomatic carriers, which contributes to a falsely elevated rate of healthcare-facility onset (HO) CDI when CD stool assays are inappropriately ordered. The aim of this study w...

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Autores principales: Millard, John W., Agha, Yasmine Hussein, Srinivasan, Sachin, Assi, Maha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Kansas Medical Center 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7651785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33173561
http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/kjm.vol13.14762