Volume 4, Number 4—December 1998
Dispatch
Increasing Hospitalization and Death Possibly Due to Clostridium difficile Diarrheal Disease
Floyd Frost*
, Gunther F. Craun†, and Rebecca L. Calderon‡
, Gunther F. Craun†, and Rebecca L. Calderon‡Table 2
Age-adjusted death rates for bacterial causes of diarrhea
| ICD9 0080-0084a |
Remainder of bacterial causesb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | AARATEc | <45 yrsd | >45 yrsd | (Deaths) | AARATE3 | <45 yrsd | >45 yrsd | (Deaths) |
| 1980 | 0.0102 | 0.0013 | 0.0090 | ( 21) | 0.0500 | 0.0133 | 0.0368 | (107) |
| 1981 | 0.0135 | 0.0035 | 0.0100 | ( 29) | 0.0559 | 0.0107 | 0.0453 | (120) |
| 1982 | 0.0107 | 0.0022 | 0.0085 | ( 23) | 0.0463 | 0.0087 | 0.0365 | (100) |
| 1983 | 0.0144 | 0.0040 | 0.0104 | ( 32) | 0.0426 | 0.0092 | 0.0334 | ( 94) |
| 1984 | 0.0101 | 0.0026 | 0.0075 | ( 23) | 0.0433 | 0.0068 | 0.0365 | ( 98) |
| 1985 | 0.0092 | 0.0016 | 0.0075 | ( 21) | 0.0587 | 0.0131 | 0.0456 | (135) |
| 1986 | 0.0119 | 0.0029 | 0.0090 | ( 28) | 0.0485 | 0.0108 | 0.0347 | (105) |
| 1987 | 0.0175 | 0.0029 | 0.0146 | ( 41) | 0.0506 | 0.0097 | 0.0409 | (120) |
| 1988 | 0.0241 | 0.0008 | 0.0232 | ( 57) | 0.0305 | 0.0071 | 0.0234 | ( 74) |
| 1989 | 0.0342 | 0.0016 | 0.0326 | ( 83) | 0.0465 | 0.0111 | 0.0354 | (114) |
| 1990 | 0.0520 | 0.0043 | 0.0478 | (129) | 0.0374 | 0.0070 | 0.0303 | ( 93) |
| 1991 | 0.0547 | 0.0027 | 0.0520 | (139) | 0.0254 | 0.0055 | 0.0190 | ( 65) |
| 1992 | 0.0821 | 0.0046 | 0.0775 | (213) | 0.0220 | 0.0049 | 0.0171 | ( 57) |
a Causes include Escherichia coli (0080), Arizona group (0081), Aerobacter aerogenes (Enterobacter) (0082), Proteus mirabilus and morganii (0083), other specified enteric bacterial infections (0084).
b Causes include cholera (001), typhoid and paratyphoid fever (002), other salmonella infections (003), shigellosis (004), bacterial enteritis, unspecified (0085), bacterial infection in conditions classified elsewhere (041).
c Age-adjusted death rates per 100,000 population, adjusted to the 1990 U.S. population.
d Contribution to age-adjusted death rate from persons younger than age 45 years and from persons age 45 years and older.
