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Volume 16, Number 5—May 2010
Dispatch

Multihospital Outbreak of Clostridium difficile Infection, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Robin L.P. Jump, Michelle M. Riggs, Ajay K. Sethi, Michael J. Pultz, Tracie Ellis-Reid, William Riebel, Dale N. Gerding, Robert A. Salata, and Curtis J. DonskeyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (R.L.P. Jump, R.A. Salata); Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland (M.M. Riggs, M.J. Pultz, T. Ellis-Reid, C.J. Donskey); Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (A.K. Sethi); Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, Ohio, USA (W. Riebel); Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois, USA (D.N. Gerding); Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA (D.N. Gerding)

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Table

Clostridium difficile infection rates and healthcare facility characteristics according to respiratory fluoroquinolone on formulary, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2006*

CharacteristicLevofloxacinMoxifloxacinNeither†Total
No. hospitals138122
No. beds, median (IQR)
232 (108–371)
361 (217–565)
1,008
316 (125–424)
Type of facility
Tertiary care0213
Acute care96015
Long-term acute care
4
0
0
4
Hospital system
System 11506
System 2110112
Neither
1
3
0
4
No. cases of C. difficile infection4945692061,269
Patient-days580,893666,719293,8331,541,445
Rate of C. difficile infection/10,000 patient-days, median (IQR)8.5 (7.8–9.3)8.5 (7.8–9.2)7.0 (6.1–8.0)8.2 (7.8–8.7)

*IQR, interquartile range.
†Ciprofloxacin on formulary but no respiratory fluoroquinolone on formulary.

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