ReviewJournal of global health2016
Infection prevention and control of
Review in Journal of global health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Risks and Preventive Strategies for Clostridioides difficile Transmission to Household or Community Contacts during Transition in Healthcare Settings.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Comparison ofJournal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Abundant geographical divergence of Clostridioides difficile infection in China: a prospective multicenter cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- The global burden and trend of Clostridioides difficile and its association with world antibiotic consumption, 1990-2019.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Mortality Attributable toMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Genomic surveillance ofmBio · 2024Article
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- Clinical Usefulness of the "MN Criteria" - the Clostridioides difficile Infection Severity Scoring System - in the Japanese Setting.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2023Article
- Rapid-format recombinant antibody-based methods for the diagnosis ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- The role of vaccines in combatting antimicrobial resistance.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2021Review
- Epidemiology of community-acquired and recurrentTherapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2021Review
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- Colonization of ToxigenicFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020Article
- Efficacy of the SuperTowelThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019Article
- Assessing the Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2018Review
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- New Insights intoFrontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
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- Clostridium difficile infection in the Lao People's Democratic Republic: first isolation and review of the literature.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Review
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
background
methodsWe identified publicly available national or organizational guidelines related to CDI infection and prevention control (IPC) published between 2000 and 2015 and for any health care setting through an internet search using the Google search engine. We reviewed CDI-targeted IPC recommendations and describe the assessment of evidence in available guidelines.
resultsWe identified documents from 28 countries/territories, mainly from acute care hospitals in North America, the Western Pacific, and Europe (18 countries). We identified only a few specific recommendations for long-term care facilities (LTCFs) and from countries in South America (Uruguay and Chile), South East Asia (Thailand), and none for Africa or Eastern Mediterranean. Of 10 IPC areas, antimicrobial stewardship was universally recognized as essential and supported by high quality evidence. Five other widely reported "strong" recommendations were: effective environment cleaning (including medical equipment), case isolation, use of personal protective equipment, surveillance, and education. Several unresolved and emerging issues were documented and currently available evidence was classified mainly as of mixed quality.
conclusionOur review underlines the need for targeted CDI IPC guidelines in several countries and for LTCFs. International harmonisation on the assessment of the evidence for best practices is needed as well as more robust evidence to support targeted recommendations.
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