Volume 4, Number 4—December 1998
Dispatch
Increasing Hospitalization and Death Possibly Due to Clostridium difficile Diarrheal Disease
Table 3
ICD9 0080-0084a |
Remainder of bacterial causesb |
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Year | AARATEc | <45 yrsd | >45 yrsd | (Discharges) | AARATE3 | <45 yrsd | >45 yrsd | (Discharges) |
1985 | 3.72 | 1.71 | 2.02 | ( 8,716) | 7.76 | 4.06 | 3.70 | (18,286) |
1986 | 4.79 | 2.01 | 2.74 | (11,316) | 5.56 | 2.60 | 2.96 | (13,174) |
1987 | 6.05 | 1.95 | 4.10 | (14,433) | 4.55 | 2.14 | 2.41 | (11,037) |
1988 | 11.36 | 3.20 | 8.14 | (27,492) | 9.07 | 6.04 | 3.02 | (22,219) |
1989 | 16.09 | 5.64 | 11.05 | (38,894) | 8.10 | 4.96 | 3.14 | (19,931) |
1990 | 25.23 | 6.40 | 18.82 | (62,750) | 8.28 | 4.29 | 4.00 | (21,037) |
1991 | 30.67 | 7.55 | 23.12 | (78,100) | 6.05 | 3.52 | 2.53 | (15,620) |
1992 | 41.96 | 9.71 | 32.25 | (107,874) | 5.56 | 3.15 | 2.42 | (14,568) |
1993 | 33.91 | 8.32 | 25.60 | (88,715) | 5.51 | 3.54 | 1.98 | (14,454) |
1994 | 42.66 | 10.48 | 30.18 | (113,411) | 5.22 | 3.44 | 1.78 | (13,944) |
aCauses include Escherichia coli (0080), Arizona group (0081), Aerobacter aerogenes (Enterobacter) (0082), Proteus mirabilus and morganii (0083), Staphylococcus (00841), Pseudomonas (00842), Campylobacter (00843), Yersinia enterocolitica (00844), Clostridium difficile (00845), other anaerobes (00846), other gram-negative (00847), other (00849). Codes 00843-00847 were added in 1992.
bCauses 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).
cAge-adjusted discharge rates per 100,000 population, adjusted to the 1990 U.S. population.
dContribution to age-adjusted discharge rate from persons younger than age 45 years and from persons age 45 years and older.