Clostridioides Difficile Resources
Articles
- Magill SS, Edwards JR, Bamberg W, Beldavs ZG, Dumyati G, Kainer MA et al. Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections. N Engl J Med 2014;370(13):1198-208
- Pritish K and Tosh L McDonald C. Infection Control in the Multidrug-Resistant Era: Tending the Human Microbiome Clinical Infectious Diseases 2011
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Guidelines, toolkits
- CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Resources for patients, clinicians, healthcare facilities and public health agencies on the epidemiology, prevention and control of Clostridioides difficile.
- CDC Clostridioides difficile ( difficile) Infections Toolkit [PDF -1.04 MB]
- CDC Update on Hand Hygiene and difficile: Rationale for Hand Hygiene Recommendations after Caring for a Patient with Clostridioides difficile Infection
- CDC Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings, 2007
- CDC Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In Healthcare Settings, 2006
- CDC Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, (2008)
- CDC Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003 [PDF – 1.4 MB]
- CDCVital Signs – Public health reports on key topics Making healthcare safer: Stopping Clostridioides difficile infections
- EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) – Since Clostridioides difficile spores are resistant to many cleaning agents and hospital disinfectants, the EPA has developed standard opens in a new tabtests that must be performed to ensure a product can deactivate spores.
- SHEA Strategies to Prevent Clostridioides difficile Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update AUTHORS: SHEA, IDSA AHA, APIC, The Joint Commission
Antimicrobial Stewardship – to reduce C. difficile
- AHRQ- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ Toolkit for the Reduction of CDI through Antimicrobial Stewardship to assist with decreasing the overuse and inappropriate selection of antibiotics
- CDC – Get Smart for Healthcare: Implementing and Improving Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts