Study examines hospital transfer structure effect on C. diff: 3 findings Researchers conducted a study to determine the effect of transfers of patients between different hospitals on the rate of ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile — otherwise known as C. diff — spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought, according to a study published on April 4 in ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- We trust hospitals to help make us well. What we don't expect is to get sick in a hospital. But every year, about 648,000 hospital patients develop infections during their stay, and ...

The cost of treating patients for hospital-onset clostridium difficile infection is higher than for patients without the infection, independent of principal disease and other characteristics, ...

Clostridium difficile caused nearly half a million infections in U.S. patients in 2011, and C. diff infections kill roughly 15,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A group of frontline hospital workers who often go unseen in day-to-day patient care was recognized Friday at University ...

University of Wisconsin–Madison–led researchers report lower yet statistically non-significant recurrence of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) among adults given low-dose oral vancomycin during ...