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| Title |
Risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients hospitalized in a tertiary hospital in Belgrade, Serbia: a case–control study
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| Published in |
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13756-017-0188-x |
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| Authors |
Vesna Šuljagić, Ivan Miljković, Srđan Starčević, Nenad Stepić, Zoran Kostić, Dragutin Jovanović, Jelena Brusić-Renaud, Biljana Mijović, Sandra Šipetić-Grujičić |
| Abstract |
The objective of this study was to investigate independent risk factors (RFs) connected with healthcare-associated (HA) Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in surgical patients, its frequency per surgical wards and in-hospital-mortality at a single hospital. Risk factors for the infection were prospectively assessed among surgical patients with laboratory confirmed HA CDI and compared with a control group without HA CDI. The overall incidence rate of HA CDI was 2.6 per 10000 patient-days. Significant independent RFs for HA CDI were the use of carbapenems (P = 0.007, OR: 10.62, 95% CI: 1.93-58.4), the admission to intensive care unit (P = 0.004, OR:3.00, 95% CI:1.41-6.40), and the administration of 3rd generation cephalosporins (P = 0.014, OR:2.27, 95% CI:1.18-4.39). Patients with HA CDI had significantly higher in-hospital mortality compared to controls (P: 0.007; OR: 8.95; 95% CI: 1.84-43.43). CDI is an important HA infection in population of surgical patients and this study emphasizes the importance of the wise use of antibiotics, and other infection control strategies in order to prevent HA CDI, and to decrease the incidence and in-hospital mortality rate. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Uruguay | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 9 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 4 | 40% |
| Members of the public | 3 | 30% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 20% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 25 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 25 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 5 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 16% |
| Researcher | 3 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 3 | 12% |
| Unknown | 6 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 12% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 8% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 3 | 12% |
| Unknown | 7 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 April 2017.
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#2,150,089
of 24,089,177 outputs
Outputs from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#257
of 1,356 outputs
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#41,348
of 312,439 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
#6
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,089,177 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,356 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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