{"id":748,"date":"2012-03-17T14:19:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:06:16","slug":"cdc-warns-the-public-about-deadly-c-diff-infections-patient-safety-advocates-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"CDC warns the public about deadly C. diff infections, patient safety advocates react"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 9, 2012 SafePatientProjedt.org\u00a0 Posted by Daniela Nu\u00f1ez\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong> 14,000 Americans die every year<\/strong> from diarrhea-causing C. difficile (or C. diff for short) infections and 337,000 people are hospitalized, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6109a3.htm?s_cid=mm6109a3_w\">new report<\/a> by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unlike other healthcare-associated infections that have been on the decline over the past decade, C. diff infection rates and deaths climbed to historic highs and \u201cpose threat across medical facilities,\u201d adding at least $1 billion in extra costs to the health care system, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2012\/p0306_cdiff.html\">said the CDC Director.<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/safepatientproject.org\/posts\/3009-cdc-warns-the-public-about-deadly-c-diff-infections-patient-safety-advocates-react\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9, 2012 SafePatientProjedt.org\u00a0 Posted by Daniela Nu\u00f1ez\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14,000 Americans die every year from diarrhea-causing C. difficile (or C. diff for short) infections and 337,000 people are hospitalized, according to <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=748\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[199,75,123,152,120],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","tag-c-dif","tag-clostridium-difficile","tag-hai","tag-healthcare-aquired-infections","tag-hospital-acquired-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}