Antibiotic-resistant CDIs were declared an urgent threat to public health by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2013. A 2011 study estimated that CDIs kill about 29,000 Americans each ...

Living at a nursing home may be a predictor of whether a hospital patient dies from Clostridium difficile, a new study suggests. Researchers at Winthrop University Hospital in New York looked at 254 ...

Nursing assistants are more vulnerable to Clostridium difficile (C. diff) contamination on their hands than other healthcare workers, according to a new study published in Infection Control and ...

There was a significant decline in deaths from clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) among American individuals aged 35 years and above between 2011 and 2020, according to a May study published in ...

HCR ManorCare, the second-largest nursing-home chain, exposed its roughly 25,000 patients to increasing health risks in the 5 years preceding its bankruptcy; Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, is ...

Making data on Clostridium difficile infections at nursing homes available to the public, in Ohio and nationally, will allow consumers to choose facilities more wisely and reward places with healthier ...

Official government figures show MRSA and C.difficile deaths have dropped. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, learning units, procedures, AI-powered tools, expert ...

One hospital's multimodal approach has successfully lowered infections. For Necia Kimber, RN, CIC, MHA, infection control practitioner at Stillwater (Oklahoma) Medical Center, "one infection is too ...

The risk of getting a deadly, treatment-resistant infection in a hospital or nursing home is dropping for the first time in decades, thanks to new guidelines on antibiotic use and stricter cleaning ...

Just days after doctors successfully removed a tumor from Bailey Quishenberry's brain, the 14-year-old was spiraling downhill, delirious and writhing in pain from an entirely new menace. Her abdomen ...

A review of faecal transplant as an accepted therapy for recurrent C difficile infection and a potential treatment for other health conditions. Abstract The composition and diversity of the gut ...