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Estimating Local Costs Associated With Clostridium difficile Infection Using Machine Learning and Electronic Medical Records.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology Nov 6, 2017
BACKGROUND Reported per-patient costs of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) vary by 2 orders of magnitude among different hospitals, implying that infection control officers need precise, local analyses to guide rational decision making between in...
Humans Machine Learning Retrospective Studies Electronic Health Records Female Aged Aged, 80 and over Young Adult Adult Male Middle Aged Length of Stay Adolescent Logistic Models Tertiary Care Centers New York Cross Infection Clostridium Infections Propensity Score Clostridioides difficile Health Care Costs
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Organism burden, toxin concentration, and lactoferrin concentration do not distinguish between clinically significant and nonsignificant diarrhea in patients with Clostridium difficile.

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease Nov 30, 2015
Clostridium difficile infection is often overdiagnosed in patients with mild diarrhea. We evaluated 4 biomarkers as surrogates for clinically significant diarrhea (≥ 3 episodes in 24 hours) in 59 PCR-positive patients with and 59 PCR-positive patient...
Humans Female Male Middle Aged Severity of Illness Index Case-Control Studies Diarrhea Feces Lactoferrin Bacterial Load Clostridium Infections Bacterial Toxins Clostridioides difficile
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AI Tackles Hospital Infections: Machine Learning Is Helping Clinicians.

IEEE pulse Jan 1, 2018
For Ashley Zappia (Figure 1), getting her hands dirty was part of her job. Even though she always tried to remain as clean as possible, her work as a nursing aide at a Southern California hospital required a lot of diapering, changing, and other hand...
Humans Machine Learning Risk Factors Infection Control Gastrointestinal Microbiome Immunocompromised Host Medical Informatics Cross Infection Clostridium Infections Clostridioides difficile
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