A Successful Strategy to Decrease Hospital-Onset Clostridium difficile

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 Feb;39(2):234-236. doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.289. Epub 2018 Jan 5.

Authors

Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha¹, Rebecca A Osgood², Casey E Alexandre³

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Medicine,Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School,Cambridge,Massachusetts.
² 2Department of Pathology,Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School,Cambridge,Massachusetts.
³ 3Department of Nursing,Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School,Cambridge,Massachusetts.

PMID: 29301591
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.289

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Clostridioides difficile / isolation & purification*
Clostridium Infections / diagnosis*
Clostridium Infections / epidemiology
Clostridium Infections / prevention & control
Community-Acquired Infections / diagnosis*
Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology
Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology*
Cross Infection / epidemiology
Cross Infection / microbiology*
Cross Infection / prevention & control
Feces / microbiology
Hospitals
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Quality Improvement