Hospital reduces incidence of hospital-associated C. difficile by 70 percent
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
Rhode Island Hospital has reduced the incidence of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections by 70 percent and reduced annual associated mortality in patients with hospital-associated C. difficile by 64 percent through successive implementation of five rigorous interventions. A major cause of morbidity and mortality in the US, C. difficile can cause life-threatening infections that occur most frequently in patients who have received antibiotic therapy.