2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. We examined the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) for hospitalizations in Texas and estimated the incremental impact of CDI on mortality, length of stay, and costs. For patients hospitalized for other conditions or procedures, CDI may result in higher mortality risk, additional costs, and longer lengths of stay. However, little is known about these incremental impacts from observational data. This study uses publicly available inpatient discharge data from Texas to estimate these impacts. Texas was selected for study owing to the large number of hospitals, geographic and demographic diversity of hospitalized patients, and recent population growth in Texas.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
- Hospital Mortality
- Length Of Stay
- Hospitals
- Clostridium Infections
- Clostridioides Difficile
- Texas
- Adult
- Humans
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