Validation of the 3-Day Rule for Stool Bacterial Tests in Japan

Objective Stool cultures are expensive and time consuming, and the positive rate of enteric pathogens in cases of nosocomial diarrhea is low. The 3-day rule, whereby clinicians order a Clostridium difficile (CD) toxin test rather than a stool culture for inpatients developing diarrhea >3 days aft...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2014, Vol.53(6), pp.533-539
Hauptverfasser:	Kobayashi, Masanori, Sako, Akahito, Ogami, Toshiko, Nishimura, So, Asayama, Naoki, Yada, Tomoyuki, Nagata, Naoyoshi, Sakurai, Toshiyuki, Yokoi, Chizu, Kobayakawa, Masao, Yanase, Mikio, Masaki, Naohiko, Takeshita, Nozomi, Uemura, Naomi
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	3-day rule Adult Aged Bacteria Clostridium difficile Clostridium difficile - isolation & purification Clostridium difficile toxin Cost-Benefit Analysis cost-effectiveness Cross Infection - economics Cross Infection - microbiology Cross Infection - prevention & control diarrhea Diarrhea - epidemiology Diarrhea - microbiology Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - diagnosis Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - economics Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - microbiology Feces - microbiology Female Hospitalization - economics Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Humans Inpatients Japan - epidemiology Male Middle Aged Practice Guidelines as Topic Retrospective Studies stool culture Time Factors
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