Epidemiology and Risk Factors of Clostridioides difficile Infections in Germany: A Health Claims Data Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is increasingly recognized as a public health threat at the community level in addition to being one of the most common causes of healthcare-associated infections. In Germany, the epidemiology of CDI is primarily informed by national hospital-based CDI surveillance. We used health claims data from Germany to obtain valuable insights on population-level disease burden and risk factors for CDI.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study using a representative sample from the InGef research database. Overall and age- and sex-stratified CDI incidence rates were estimated for German adults from 2013 to 2017 using different case definitions (i.e., main, broad, strict), and further stratified by setting (inpatient versus outp

SUBMITTER: Weinke T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10229516 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature