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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Stuart H. Cohen,Dale N. Gerding,Stuart Johnson,Ciaran P. Kelly,Vivian G. Loo,L. Clifford McDonald,Jacques Pépin,Mark H. Wilcox +7 more
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This guideline updates recommendations regarding epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and infection control and environmental management of Clostridium difficile.Abstract:
Since publication of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America position paper on Clostridium difficile infection in 1995, significant changes have occurred in the epidemiology and treatment of this infection. C. difficile remains the most important cause of healthcareassociated diarrhea and is increasingly important as a community pathogen. A more virulent strain of C. difficile has been identified and has been responsible for more-severe cases of disease worldwide. Data reporting the decreased effectiveness of metronidazole in the treatment of severe disease have been published. Despite the increasing quantity of data available, areas of controversy still exist. This guideline updates recommendations regarding epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and infection control and environmental management.read more
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Guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia the official statement of the American Thoracic Society and the Infectious Disease Society of America (特集 救急診療ガイドライン) -- (海外のガイドライン)
TL;DR: The Methodology used to Prepare the Guideline Epidemiology Incidence Etiology and Recommendations for Assessing Response to Therapy Suggested Performance Indicators is summarized.
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Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States
Fernanda C. Lessa,Yi Mu,Wendy Bamberg,Zintars G. Beldavs,Ghinwa Dumyati,John R. Dunn,Monica M. Farley,Stacy Holzbauer,James I. Meek,Erin C Phipps,Lucy E. Wilson,Lisa G. Winston,Jessica Cohen,Brandi Limbago,Scott K. Fridkin,Dale N. Gerding,L. Clifford McDonald +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used regression models to calculate estimates of national incidence and total number of infections, first recurrences, and deaths within 30 days after the diagnosis of C. difficile infection.
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
L. Clifford McDonald,Dale N. Gerding,Stuart Johnson,Stuart Johnson,Johan S. Bakken,Karen C. Carroll,Susan E. Coffin,Erik R. Dubberke,Kevin W. Garey,Carolyn V. Gould,Ciaran P. Kelly,Vivian G. Loo,Julia S. Sammons,Thomas J. Sandora,Mark H. Wilcox +14 more
TL;DR: This guideline updates recommendations regarding epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, infection prevention, and environmental management on Clostridium difficile infection in adults and includes recommendations for children.
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Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery
Dale W. Bratzler,E. Patchen Dellinger,Keith M. Olsen,Trish M. Perl,Paul G. Auwaerter,Maureen K. Bolon,Douglas N. Fish,Douglas N. Fish,Lena M. Napolitano,Robert G. Sawyer,Douglas Slain,James P. Steinberg,Robert A. Weinstein +12 more
TL;DR: These guidelines were developed jointly by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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Guidelines for prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected adults and adolescents: recommendations from CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
TL;DR: The most recent version of the guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections (OI) in HIV-infected adults and adolescents was published in 2002 and 2004, respectively as mentioned in this paper.
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Guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia the official statement of the American Thoracic Society and the Infectious Disease Society of America (特集 救急診療ガイドライン) -- (海外のガイドライン)
TL;DR: The Methodology used to Prepare the Guideline Epidemiology Incidence Etiology and Recommendations for Assessing Response to Therapy Suggested Performance Indicators is summarized.
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An epidemic, toxin gene-variant strain of Clostridium difficile.
L. Clifford McDonald,George Killgore,Angela Thompson,Robert C. Owens,Sophia Kazakova,Susan P. Sambol,Stuart Johnson,Dale N. Gerding +7 more
TL;DR: A previously uncommon strain of C. difficile with variations in toxin genes has become more resistant to fluoroquinolones and has emerged as a cause of geographically dispersed outbreaks of C.'s Difficile-associated disease.
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A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality.
Vivian G. Loo,Louise Poirier,Mark A. Miller,Matthew Oughton,Michael Libman,Sophie Michaud,Anne-Marie Bourgault,Tuyen Nguyen,Charles Frenette,Mirabelle Kelly,Anne Vibien,Paul Brassard,Susan Fenn,Ken Dewar,Thomas J. Hudson,Ruth Horn,Pierre René,Yury Monczak,Andre Dascal +18 more
TL;DR: A strain of C. difficile that was resistant to fluoroquinolones and had binary toxin and a partial deletion of the tcdC gene was responsible for this outbreak ofC.difficile-associated diarrhea.
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Clinical practice guidelines : directions for a new program
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Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients
Peter Davey,Charis Marwick,Claire Scott,Esmita Charani,Kirsty McNeil,Erwin M. Brown,Ian M. Gould,Craig R Ramsay,Susan Michie +8 more
TL;DR: This systematic review of interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing to hospital inpatients showed interventions to be associated with improvement in prescribing according to antibiotic policy in routine clinical practice, with 70% of interventions being hospital-wide compared with 31% for RCTs.