Clostridioides difficile Infection Treatment and Outcome Disparities in a National Sample of United States Hospitals.

ABSTRACT: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) disproportionately affects certain populations, but few studies have investigated health outcome disparities among patients with CDI. This study aimed to characterize CDI treatment and health outcomes among patients by age group, sex, race, and ethnicity. This was a nationally representative, retrospective cohort study of patients with laboratory-confirmed CDI within the Premier Healthcare Database from January 2018 to March 2021. CDI therapies received and health outcomes were compared between patients by age group, sex, race, and Hispanic ethnicity using bivariable and multivariable statistical analyses. A total of 45,331 CDI encounters were included for analysis: 38,764 index encounters and 6567 recurrent encounters. CDI treatment patterns

SUBMITTER: Young EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9495221 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature