Potential for the current National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) >3 days after admission definition of laboratory-identified, healthcare-facility-onset, Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) to overestimate rates

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Apr;41(4):467-468. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.3. Epub 2020 Jan 24.

Abstract

Healthcare-facility-onset C.difficile LabID events are defined as positive stool samples collected >3 days after hospitalization. Using a definition of >72 hours, we found that 84 of 1013 cases (8.3%) identified as C. difficile LabID events were collected between 48 and 72 hours after admission.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Bias
  • Clostridioides difficile
  • Clostridium Infections / epidemiology*
  • Cross Infection / epidemiology*
  • Cross Infection / microbiology*
  • Data Collection / methods
  • Hospitals, Veterans
  • Humans
  • Sentinel Surveillance*
  • South Carolina / epidemiology