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. 2021 Aug 16;73(4):722-725.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab042.

Association between Socioeconomic Status and Incidence of Community-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infection - United States, 2014-2015

Kimberly A Skrobarcek  1 , Yi Mu  1 , Jennifer Ahern  2 , Elizabeth Basiliere  3 , Zintars G Beldavs  4 , Geoffrey Brousseau  3 , Ghinwa Dumyati  5 , Scott Fridkin  6 , Stacy M Holzbauer  7 , Helen Johnston  3 , Marion A Kainer  8 , James Meek  9 , Valerie L S Ocampo  4 , Erin Parker  10 , Rebecca Perlmutter  11 , Erin C Phipps  12 , Lisa Winston  13 , Alice Guh  1
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Association between Socioeconomic Status and Incidence of Community-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infection - United States, 2014-2015

Kimberly A Skrobarcek et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

We evaluated the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and community-associated Clostridioides difficile infection (CA-CDI) incidence across 2474 census tracts in 10 states. Highly correlated community-level SES variables were transformed into distinct factors using factor analysis. We found low SES communities were associated with higher CA-CDI incidence.

Keywords: Community-associated Clostridioides difficile; health disparities; social determinants of ealth.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest

G.D. is a member of an advisory network for Roche Molecular Diagnostics. M.K. is a board member for the Infectious Diseases Consulting Corporation, has been a consultant for Pfizer, and received personal fees from WebMD. M.K. also reports travel support from Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Infectious Diseases Consulting Corporation (IDCC), WebMD, Pfizer, and Public Health Association of Australia, outside the submitted work. No other author has potential conflicts.

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