Incidence of Clostridium difficile Infection After Sepsis Protocol Antibiotics

This study was designed toinvestigate those concerns by focusing on in-hospital Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), which is a knowncomplication of exposure to antibiotics.Methods: Our emergency department (ED) recently implemented a protocol to help combat sepsis andincrease compliance with the 2017 Sepsis CMS Core Measures (SEP-1) guidelines. In this single-center,retrospective cohort analysis we queried the electronic health record to gather data on nosocomial CDIand antibiotics prescribed over a five-year period to analyze the effect of the introduction of a sepsisprotocol order set. The primary goal of this study was to measure the hospital-wide CDI rate...
Source: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research