Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital · +12 more institutions
Abstract
A panel of experts was convened by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) to update the 2010 clinical practice guideline on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in adults. The update, which has incorporated recommendations for children (following the adult recommendations for epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment), includes significant changes in the management of this infection and reflects the evolving controversy over best methods for diagnosis. Clostridium difficile remains the most important cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea and has become the most commonly identified cause of healthcare-associated infection in adults in the…
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- FWCI
- 178.56
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- 100%
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- 401
Authors
14- LCL. Clifford McDonaldCorresponding
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- DNDale N. Gerding
Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital
- SJStuart Johnson
Loyola University Medical Center, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital
- JBJohan Bakken
St. Luke's Hospital
- KCKaren C. Carroll
Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Clostridium difficile
- Epidemiology
- Health care
- Intensive care medicine
- Clinical Practice
- Clinical microbiology
- Family medicine
- Good health and well-being