Preventing Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease: Is It Time to Pay the Piper?

Editorial

Eli N Perencevich and Kerri A Thom

Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.29(9), pp.829-831

09/2008

DOI: 10.1086/591058

PMID: 18643747

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Commentary

United States

Hospital Costs

Length of Stay

Cross Infection - economics

Cross Infection - prevention & control

Humans

Clostridium difficile

Prospective Payment System - economics

Rate Setting and Review - legislation & jurisprudence

Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - microbiology

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) - legislation & jurisprudence

Cross Infection - microbiology

Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - prevention & control

Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - economics

Prospective Payment System - legislation & jurisprudence

Title: Subtitle: Preventing Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease: Is It Time to Pay the Piper?
Creators: Eli N Perencevich - Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. eperence@epi.umaryland.edu
Kerri A Thom
Resource Type: Editorial
Publication Details: Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.29(9), pp.829-831
DOI: 10.1086/591058
PMID: 18643747
NLM abbreviation: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
eISSN: 1559-6834
Publisher: United States
Language: English
Date published: 09/2008
Academic Unit: Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
Record Identifier: 9983779492602771

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