TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 39. Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)
A1  - Tuda, Claudio D.
A2  - Farcy, David A.
A2  - Chiu, William C.
A2  - Flaxman, Alex
A2  - Marshall, John P.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Critical Care Emergency Medicine
AB  - Clostridium  difficile  infection  (CDI)  is  the  most  commonly  recognized  cause  of  infectious  diarrhea  in  hospitals  and  long-term  care  facilities.1  The  incidence  of  CDI  is  difficult  to  establish  because  it  is  not  a  reportable  disease  in  the  United  States.  It  is  estimated  that  there  are  at  least  500,000  cases  in  US  hospitals  and  nursing  homes  per  year  resulting  in  30,000  deaths.2  Approximately  4.6  cases  per  10,000  patient  admissions  was  the  incidence  noted  in  data  from  the  Canadian  surveillance  studies  conducted  in  hospitals  in  1997  and  2005.3  A  recent  European  hospital-based  survey  showed  a  similar  incidence  of  4.1  cases  per  10,000  patient  days.4  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55814645
ER  -