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SUBMITTER: Ziakas PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4979776 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ziakas Panayiotis D PD Joyce Nina N Zacharioudakis Ioannis M IM Zervou Fainareti N FN Besdine Richard W RW Mor Vincent V Mylonakis Eleftherios E
Medicine 20160801 31
The elderly population is particularly vulnerable to Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), but the epidemiology of CDI in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) is unknown.We performed a retrospective cohort study and used US 2011 LTCF resident data from the Minimum Data Set 3.0 linked to Medicare claims. We extracted CDI cases based on International Classification of Diseases-9 coding, and compared residents with the diagnosis of CDI to those who did not have a CDI diagnosis during their LTCF stay. ...[more]