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Study: C. Difficile cases up 200%
Quality Improvement Monitor, April 25, 2008
A new study has found that the number of patients infected with Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile, rose by 200% from 2000 to 2005, according to Reuters.
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which conducted the study, tracked more than 2 million cases of C. difficile in U.S. hospitals between 1993 and 2005. From 1993 to 2000, the number of cases of C. difficile rose 74%, Reuters said.
Patients with C. difficile were hospitalized almost three times longer than uninfected patients and 9.5% died in hospital compared with 2.1%, the AHRQ study found.
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