Impact of PCR Testing for Clostridium difficile on Incident Rates and Potential on Public Reporting

Is the Playing Field Level?

Fong, Kimberlee S. DO
Fatica, Cynthia RN, BSN
Hall, Geraldine PhD
Procop, Gary MD
Schindler, Susan M(ASCP)
Gordon, Steven M. MD
Fraser, Thomas G. MD

1. Cleveland Clinic Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland, Ohio; 2. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Infection Control, Cleveland, Ohio; 3. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio

Address correspondence to Kimberlee S. Fong, DO, Cleveland Clinic Department of Infectious Disease, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195 ([email protected]).

Received May 16, 2011; accepted May 22, 2011; electronically published July 21, 2011

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 32(9):p 932-933, September 2011.