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Potential for the current National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) >3 days after admission definition of laboratory-identified, healthcare-facility–onset, Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) to overestimate rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2020

Shruti Puri ,
Heather Y. Hughes ,
Monica D. McCrackin ,
Robert Williford ,
Mulugeta Gebregziabher ,
Cassandra D. Salgado  and
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Shruti Puri
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
Heather Y. Hughes
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina Ralph H. Johnson Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina
Monica D. McCrackin
Affiliation:
Ralph H. Johnson Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina
Robert Williford
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
Mulugeta Gebregziabher
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
Cassandra D. Salgado
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
Scott R. Curry*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
*
Author for correspondence: Scott R. Curry, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Healthcare-facility–onset C.difficile LabID events are defined as positive stool samples collected >3 days after hospitalization. Using a definition of >72 hours, we found that 84 of 1013 cases (8.3%) identified as C. difficile LabID events were collected between 48 and 72 hours after admission.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , April 2020 , pp. 467 - 468
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© 2020 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: An abstract of this manuscript (abstract #340) was presented at the SHEA Spring 2018 Conference, on April 19, 2018, in Portland, Oregon.

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