Healio reported on a study created by UCSF Health Informatics team members, presented at the Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, May 10, 2017. The article discussed how the team mapped C. difficile transmission, using UCSF APeX electronic health record data of 86,648 hospitalizations between 2013 and 2015.
From the article:
Individuals passing through hospital spaces “contaminated” with Clostridium difficile within the previous 24 hours were at a significantly increased risk for the infection, according to findings presented at the 2017 Society of Hospital Medicine annual meeting in Las Vegas.
“Hospital-acquired C. difficile colitis is associated with increased length of stay and significant morbidity and mortality,” Sara G. Murray, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues wrote. “During hospitalization, patients visit many procedural, diagnostic and treatment areas throughout the hospital, presenting opportunities for spore contamination of surfaces and nosocomial disease transmission.”
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