Researchers conducted a study to determine the effect of transfers of patients between different hospitals on the rate of Clostridium difficile infections in a hospital, the results of which were ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There are two treatments, each of which may be applied or withheld, yielding a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement with three degrees of freedom ...

More than 60% of patients receive antibiotics for acute upper respiratory infections, and many of these cases lead to adverse health events such as Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection, according ...

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile is one of the most common infections picked up in hospitals, and, even once it’s cleared from the body, patients have a 1 in 6 chance of catching it again within ...

ATLANTA -- A tapered and pulsed course of vancomycin was not significantly better than a standard course of the drug for treating a first or second recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection, a ...