Clostridium difficile Archives - Medical Malpractice Lawyers

C. Difficile Infections

March 11, 2012

C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections remain one of the most serious and common healthcare-associated infections (“HAI”). In recent years, efforts in the U.S. to address and reduce HAIs in hospitals have met with some success, except for C. difficile infections. One reason f[...]

Hospital Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Six Times More Likely To Die If They Become Infected With Clostridium Difficile

April 25, 2011

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory diseases involving the colon and small bowel, including Crohn’s disease (which may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus) and ulcerative colitis (which affects the colon and/or rectum). Ulcerative co[...]

Causes Of Death In The United States In 2009

April 16, 2011

The recently published preliminary data regarding deaths in the United States for the most recent year available (2009) indicate that the death rate in 2009 was 741.0 per 100,000 population (a total of 2,436,682 deaths in the United States during 2009), down from 758.7 in 2008, which represented a [...]

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C. Difficile Infections

Hospital Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Six Times More Likely To Die If They Become Infected With Clostridium Difficile

Causes Of Death In The United States In 2009

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