Estimating the impact of a healthcare facility-onset antibiotic-treated Clostridioides difficile infection surveillance definition on the number of cases reportable by US veterans affairs medical centers.

Authors

Martin Evans, Brian McCauley, Natalie Hicks, Makoto Jones, Loretta Simbartl

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Infection control and hospital epidemiology. Pages 1-4. Aug 12, 2026. Epub Aug 12, 2026.

Abstract

The impact of adopting the proposed National HealthCare Safety Network healthcare facility-onset antibiotic-treated Clostridioides difficile infection (HT-CDI) surveillance definition on the number of CDI cases that would qualify for healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance reporting from US Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities is unknown.
We retrospectively evaluated CDI cases from 25 acute care VA medical centers from July 2022 through June 2024 using the proposed HT-CDI surveillance definition.
A total of 789 cases were analyzed. Use of the HT-CDI surveillance definition increased the number of reportable CDI HAIs by 23%.
In VA, adoption of the proposed HT-CDI surveillance definition increased the number of reportable cases.

PMID:
42581535
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 12 Aug 2026.

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