Healthcare facility-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridioides difficile infection in Veterans with spinal cord injury and disorder.
Conclusion: Although decreasing, CDI rates in patients with SCI/D remain high. Targeted antimicrobial stewardship and pharmacy interventions that reduce antibiotic and PPI/H2 blocker use could have profound benefits in decreasing HO-HCFA CDI in this high-risk population.
PMID: 31663843 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Spinal Cord Med Source Type: research
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