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- •Screening for C. difficile at a stem cell transplant unit was implemented.
- •Patients positive for C. difficile at admission were placed in contact precaution.
- •Hospital-onset C. difficile infections significantly decreased after instituting screening.
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Preliminary data used for this article were reported in an abstract at Digestive Disease Week 2017, May 6-9, 2017, Chicago, IL.
Conflicts of interest: None to report.
JC was involved with study design, data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data; drafting of the manuscript; and statistical analysis. MTS was involved with study concept and design, acquisition of data, interpretation of data, drafting of the manuscript, critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content, and study supervision. SK was involved with analysis and interpretation of data, critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content, and statistical analysis. DP was involved with critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content. PS was involved with study concept and design, analysis, and interpretation of data; drafting of the manuscript; critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content; and study supervision. PK was involved with study concept and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of the manuscript, critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content, and study supervision.
