The Association of Inpatient Occupancy with Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection.

ABSTRACT: Few studies have evaluated the relationship between high hospital occupancy and hospital-acquired complications. We evaluated the association between inpatient occupancy and hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) using a novel measure of hospital occupancy. We analyzed administrative data from California hospitals from 2008-2012 for Medicare recipients aged 65 years with a discharge diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia. Using daily census data, we constructed patient-level measures of occupancy on admission day and average occupancy during hospitalization (range: 0-1), which were split into 4 groups. We used logistic regression with cluster standard errors to estimate the adjusted and unadjusted relationship of occupancy with hospital-acqui

SUBMITTER: Abir M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6655472 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature