Table 1.
Infection control practices followed in baseline and intervention initiative periods.
Fig 1.
Participant flow diagram for the intervention portion of this report.
Fig 2.
Monthly incidence of HO-CDI during 29 months of observation (S1 Table).
Fig 3.
a. and b. Compliance with infection control practices designed to reduce risk of HO-CDI (3a represents Period 1 and 3b represents Period 2; S2 Table).
Table 2.
Characteristics of the NorthShore inpatient population during the Infection control intervention initiative.
Fig 4.
Antimicrobial agent use (in days of therapy per 1,000 patient days) between the two study periods depicted as total use ±1 S.E.; S3 Table).