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A Targeted Strategy to Wipe Out Clostridium difficile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert Orenstein ,
Kimberly C. Aronhalt ,
James E. McManus Jr  and
Leslie A. Fedraw
Robert Orenstein*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Mayo Clinic Enterprise Infection Prevention and Control, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Kimberly C. Aronhalt
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic Enterprise Infection Prevention and Control, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
James E. McManus Jr
Affiliation:
Environmental Services, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Leslie A. Fedraw
Affiliation:
Quality Management Services, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix Campus, 5777 East Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ 85054 ([email protected])
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Abstract

This study evaluated daily cleaning with germicidal bleach wipes on wards with a high incidence of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The intervention reduced hospital-acquired CDI incidence by 85%, from 24.2 to 3.6 cases per 10,000 patient-days, and prolonged the median time between hospital-acquired CDI cases from 8 to 80 days.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 11 , November 2011 , pp. 1137 - 1139
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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