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.

Guidelines, toolkits

• American College of Physicians (ACP) – C diff Patient Facts
• APIC – Clostridium difficile resources
• 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 – C diff Factsheet (infographic)
• CDC – Clostridioides difficile infection tracking (surveillance/stats)
• CDC Clostridioides difficile ( difficile) Infections Toolkit[PDF -1.04 MB]
• CDC – Targeted Assessment for Prevention (TAP) strategy
  • CDC – TAP Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) Implementation Guide: Links to Example Resources
• 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]
• C. difficile Excerpt: Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003
• CDC Vital Signs – Public health reports on key topics Making healthcare safer: Stopping Clostridioides difficile infections
• EPA Environmental Protection Agency – list of products (2018)
  Since Clostridioides difficile spores are resistant to many cleaning agents and hospital disinfectants, the EPA has developed standard tests that must be performed to ensure a product can deactivate spores. The EPA list can be found at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-01/documents/2018.10.01.listk_.pdf
• IDSA Practice Guideline – Clostridium difficile (2018)
• Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) (Feb, 2018) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017
• SHEA/IDSA – Strategies to Prevent Clostridioides difficile Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update
• APIC – Clostridium difficile resources

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
• Premier Safety Institute® – Antimicrobial Stewardship: Combatting antibiotic resistance