Hospital-Nursing Home Transfer Patterns and Influence on Nursing Home Clostridium difficile Infection Rates

BACKGROUND: Little is known as to how hospital C. difficile infection (CDI) may impact nursing home (NH) CDI, or how patient transfers may modify this relationship. This study aims to examine a possible association between hospital and NH CDI rates, and whether NH CDI rates are influenced by patient...

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Published in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Campbell, Lauren, Bush, Kristen, Dumyati, Ghinwa
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630767/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1006
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