Kang, Bingyi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2637-4695
Zhang, Pengdan
Gao, Zhenyu
Chhipi-Shrestha, Gyan
Hewage, Kasun
Sadiq, Rehan
Funding for this research was provided by:
startup fund from Northwest A&F University (Z109021812)
Article History
Received: 4 November 2018
Accepted: 23 January 2019
First Online: 6 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The data related to CDI were obtained from the Interior Health Authority (IHA), British Columbia. The database included the retrospective data of 22 hospitals spanned over 10 fiscal quarters from April 2012 to June 2014. The data were comprised of nursing staff to beds ratio (full-time); hand hygiene compliance; amount of Fluoroquinolone and Cephalosporins, and CDI cases. All cases of CDI were identified by Infection Prevention and Control, IHA. CDI incidence (output variable) was expressed in terms of number of CDI cases per 10,000 patient-days. For conveyance, the CDI related data of different hospitals of Quarter 2 of the fiscal year 2013 is given as an example in Table InternalRef removed.