Identification of Medicare Recipients at Highest Risk for Clostridium difficile Infection in the US by Population Attributable Risk Analysis

BACKGROUND: Population attributable risk percent (PAR%) is an epidemiological tool that provides an estimate of the percent reduction in total disease burden if that disease could be entirely eliminated among a subpopulation. As such, PAR% is used to efficiently target prevention interventions. Due...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Dubberke, Erik R., Olsen, Margaret A., Stwalley, Dustin, Kelly, Ciarán P., Gerding, Dale N., Young-Xu, Yinong, Mahé, Cedric
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747338/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26859403
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146822
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