Clostridium difficileInfection in Patients Discharged from US Short-stay Hospitals, 1996–20031

Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients Discharged from US Short-stay Hospitals, 1996–20031

US hospital discharges for which Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) was listed as any diagnosis doubled from 82,000 (95% confidence interval [CI] 71,000-94,000) or 31/100,000 population in 1996 to 178,000 (95% CI 151,000-205,000) or 61/100,000 in 2003; this increase was significant between 2000 and 2003 (slope of linear trend 9.48; 95% CI 6.16-12.80, p = 0.01). The overall rate dur...

Detailed diagnoses and procedures for patients discharged from short-stay hospitals. United States, 1985.

Utilization of short-stay hospitals by persons discharged with alcohol-related diagnoses.

Surgical operations in short-stay hospitals.

Statistics are presented on the number and rate of inpatients with surgery discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals and the types of surgical operations performed. The data for this report are based on information abstracted by means of the Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of the hospital records for discharged inpatients. Estimates of the number of patients with surgery...

Follow-up study of chronically ill patients discharged from hospitals.

LDNGTERM illness tests severely the ability of patients and families to look after themselves and of communities to supply the necessary therapeutic and supportive services. Something is known about how patients are cared for in hospitals but much less about how they fare when they are discharged, often to fend for themselves. In order to gain some insight into the nature and magnitude of this ...