The Bristol Stool Scale and Its Relationship to Clostridium difficile Infection |
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| Authors: | Daniel A. Caroff Paul H. Edelstein Keith Hamilton David A. Pegues |
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| Affiliation: | aDepartment of Medicine, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;bDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;cDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Abstract: | The Bristol stool form scale classifies the relative density of stool samples. In a prospective cohort study, we investigated the associations between stool density, C. difficile assay positivity, hospital-onset C. difficile infection, complications, and severity of C. difficile. We describe associations between the Bristol score, assay positivity, and clinical C. difficile infection. |
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