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Summary of the monitoring for UVM and the presence of toxigenic C. difficile in toilets for Arms 1 and 2 |
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| Parameter evaluated: |
Arm 1 CDAD* (102 samples; 7 patients) |
Arm 2 Diarrhea, no CDAD** (99 samples; 13 patients) |
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| Toxigenic C. difficile detected at enrolment (%) *** |
5/7 (71.4%) |
Not applicable |
| Toxigenic C. difficile detected post-enrolment (%) |
34/102 (33.3%) |
4/99 (4%) |
| UVM score post-enrolment |
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| Score 0 |
51% |
58.7% |
| Score 1 |
7.8% |
6.5% |
| Score 2 |
8.8% |
20.7% |
| Score 3 |
32.4% |
14.1% |
| Average cleaning score post-enrolment |
1.2 |
0.9 |
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*Patients with diarrhea where the diagnostic test for CDAD was positive and the patient was placed on isolation precautions with enhanced housekeeping (twice daily) using 0.05% SHP. ** Patients with diarrhea where the diagnostic test for CDAD was negative and once daily housekeeping was performed using 0.01% SHP. *** First sample taken before increased frequency of cleaning and use of higher concentration of SHP. | ||
Alfa et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008 8:64 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-64 |
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