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Rates of Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients Discharged From Spanish Hospitals, 1997-2005

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Pilar Soler ,
Francisco Nogareda  and
Rosa Cano
Pilar Soler*
Affiliation:
CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Piiblica (CIBERESP), Centra Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Francisco Nogareda
Affiliation:
CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Piiblica (CIBERESP), Centra Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Rosa Cano
Affiliation:
CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Piiblica (CIBERESP), Centra Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
*
Sinesio Delgado, 6, Madrid 28029, Spain ([email protected])
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Abstract

We analyzed the Spanish hospital discharges registered from 1997 to 2005 with patient diagnoses of “intestinal infection due to Clostridium difficile.” The mean annual incidence rate was 41.2 diagnoses per 100,000 discharges. A significant increase was found from 1997 to 2005 (slope of the regression line [b], 5.12; P < .001). Overall rates were 2.5 times as high in the group of patients aged at least 65 years as in the group aged 45-64 years.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 9 , September 2008 , pp. 886 - 889
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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