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Tracer analyses evaluating longitudinal time trends of infections not expected to be impacted by hospital public reporting of C. difficile infection rates.
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posted on 2013-02-20, 02:22 authored by Nick Daneman, Therese A. Stukel, Xiaomu Ma, Marian Vermeulen, Astrid GuttmannNeither community-acquired bacterial gastrointestinal infections (A) nor urinary tract infections (B) exhibited a change in incidence concurrent with the introduction of C. difficile infection public reporting in September 2008.