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- Title
Burden of Clostridium difficile on the healthcare system.
- Authors
Dubberke, Erik R; Olsen, Margaret A
- Abstract
There are few high-quality studies of the costs of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), and the majority of studies focus on the costs of CDI in acute-care facilities. Analysis of the best available data, from 2008, indicates that CDI may have resulted in $4.8 billion in excess costs in US acute-care facilities. Other areas of CDI-attributable excess costs that need to be investigated are costs of increased discharges to long-term care facilities, of CDI with onset in long-term care facilities, of recurrent CDI, and of additional adverse events caused by CDI.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2012, Vol 55 Suppl 2, pS88
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/cis335