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Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006
Research

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

L. Clifford McDonald*Comments to Author , Maria Owings*, and Daniel B. Jernigan*
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Table

Overall rates of any listed CDAD discharge diagnosis by various demographic factors, 1996–2003*

Demographic factor Point estimate of rate† 95% confidence interval† p value
Sex
Male 0.38% 0.34%–0.42%
Female 0.38% 0.34%–0.42% NS
Age group (y)
>65 228 200–256
45–64 40 34–45 <0.001
15–45 11 10–13 <0.001
<15 9 5–9 <0.001
Geographic region
Northeast 68 56–79
Midwest 49 36–61 0.03
South 36 27–45 <0.001
West 31 26–37 <0.001
Hospital size by number of beds
<100 0.30% 0.23%–0.36%
100–200 0.42% 0.37%–0.47% 0.004
>300 0.38% 0.35%–0.40% 0.03

*CDAD, Clostridium difficile–associated disease; NS, not significant.
†Per 100,000 population unless otherwise indicated as the proportion (%) of hospital discharges.

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1Presented in part at the 14th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 18, 2004.

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