Mortality, healthcare resource utilization, and cost among Medicare beneficiaries with Clostridioides difficile infection with and without sepsis.

Alpesh N AminWinnie W NelsonJill DreyfusAnny C WongIman MohammadiChristie TeiglandDavid N DahdalPaul Feuerstadt

Published in: Therapeutic advances in infectious disease (2022)

Sepsis was common among Medicare beneficiaries with CDI. CDI patients with sepsis, especially after an rCDI, experienced higher mortality, HRU, and costs compared with those without sepsis.

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