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Hospital staff spend a significant amount of time working to protect patients from acquiring infections while they are being cared for in the hospital.
Findings showed colonization with toxigenic C. difficile was associated with a greater risk of CDI during hospitalization than cross-transmission.
Survey results showed patients with a history of live biotherapeutic product therapy preferred rectally administered treatment while patients who had not received live biotherapeutic product therapy would be willing to consider it.
Patients with CDI and COVID-19 faced a higher risk of mortality and had higher CCI scores, a longer length of stay, and greater total hospital costs than patients infected with COVID-19 but not CDI.
Patients with CDI treated with oral metronidazole experienced significantly more first-line drug changes compared to those on fidaxomicin, although there were no significant differences observed in the global or clinical cure rate between the two treatments.