National point prevalence of Clostridium difficile in US health care facility inpatients, 2008

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Clostridium Infections 93%
• Clostridium difficile 89%
• Health Facilities 79%
• Inpatients 59%
• Delivery of Health Care 45%
• Immunoenzyme Techniques 17%
• Disinfection 9%
• Long-Term Care 8%
• Research Ethics Committees 8%
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) 8%
• Infection Control 8%
• Cross Infection 8%
• Incidence 8%
• Disease Outbreaks 7%
• Diarrhea 6%
• Epidemiology 6%
• Hospitalization 6%
• Occupational Groups 5%
• Infections 3%

Social Sciences

• Health care facility 100%
• incidence 21%
• hospital discharge 18%
• health care 17%
• acute care 16%
• institutional review 15%
• hospitalization 13%
• colonization 13%
• epidemiology 12%
• social isolation 10%
• personnel 9%
• contact 8%
• district 8%
• methodology 6%