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