Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Jan 2001)

N-CDAD in Canada: Results of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program 1997 N-CDAD Prevalence Surveillance Project

  • Meaghen Hyland,
  • Marianna Ofner-Agostini,
  • Mark Miller,
  • Shirley Paton,
  • Marie Gourdeau,
  • Magued Ishak,
  • the Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee,
  • the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (Health Canada)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2001/304098
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. 81 – 88

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: A 1996 preproject survey among Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee (CHEC) sites revealed variations in the prevention, detection, management and surveillance of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD). Facilities wanted to establish national rates of nosocomially acquired CDAD (N-CDAD) to understand the impact of control or prevention measures, and the burden of N-CDAD on health care resources. The CHEC, in collaboration with the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (Health Canada) and under the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, undertook a prevalence surveillance project among selected hospitals throughout Canada.