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Lack of correlation between standardized antimicrobial administration ratios (SAARs) and healthcare-facility–onset Clostridioides difficile infection rates in Veterans Affairs medical facilities
- Source :
- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. :1-3
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022.
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Abstract
- We detected no correlation between standardized antimicrobial administration ratios (SAARs) and healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) rates in 102 acute-care Veterans Affairs medical centers over 16 months. SAARs may be useful for investigating trends in local antimicrobial use, but no ratio threshold demarcated HO-CDI risk.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15596834 and 0899823X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........93e70d8e40bed7f2312ab314792f7ab3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2022.281