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

Skrobarcek, Kimberly A; Mu, Yi; Ahern, Jennifer; Basiliere, Elizabeth; Beldavs, Zintars G; Brousseau, Geoffrey; Dumyati, Ghinwa; Fridkin, Scott et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2021

cross_sectional · Level IV

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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.

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