Healthcare resource utilization for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in a large university hospital in Houston, Texas.

Healthcare resource utilization for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in a large university hospital in Houston, Texas.

<h4>Background</h4>There are limited data examining healthcare resource utilization in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).<h4>Methods</h4>Patients with CDI at a tertiary-care hospital in Houston, TX, were prospectively enrolled into an observational...

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Main Authors:	Samuel L Aitken, Tiby B Joseph, Dhara N Shah, Todd M Lasco, Hannah R Palmer, Herbert L DuPont, Yang Xie, Kevin W Garey
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:	PLoS ONE
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25057871/?tool=EBI

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