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Thirty-Day Readmissions After Hospitalization for Clostridium difficile Enteritis Measures and Predictors: A Nationwide Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Abhinav Goyal ,
Kshitij Chatterjee ,
Chitra Punjabi  and
Janani Rangaswami
Abhinav Goyal*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kshitij Chatterjee
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Chitra Punjabi
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Janani Rangaswami
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
Address correspondence to Abhinav Goyal MD, Einstein Medical Center, 5501 Old York Road, Suite 363, Klein Building, Philadelphia, PA 19141 (goyalabh@einstein.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 7 , July 2017 , pp. 876 - 878
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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