Meeting
Abstract Number: 176
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Patients hospitalized with hematologic malignancy are particularly vulnerable to infection. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has become the most common cause of healthcare-associated infections in U. S. hospitals, and the excess healthcare costs related to CDI are estimated to be as much as 4. 8 billion dollars for acute care facilities alone. We sought to […]