{"id":995,"date":"2012-10-25T02:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:04:59","slug":"dangerous-tie-between-popular-antacids-and-deadly-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous tie between popular antacids and deadly infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/centerforhealthreporting.org\/author\/deborah-schoch\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Schoch<\/a>,\u00a0 CHCF Center for Health Reporting | October 15, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 Combing through the files of C. difficile patients, St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Pharmacy resident Wei Wang was surprised to discover that an overwhelming number of them were consuming certain antacid drugs that made them more susceptible to the dangerous infection.\u00a0 Last summer, a young pharmacy resident named Wei Wang began combing through the electronic charts of patients at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjosephscares.org\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Center<\/a> who had been diagnosed with <em>Clostridium difficile, <\/em>one of the nation\u2019s most dangerous health care-associated infections.\u00a0 Searching for common threads, Wang discovered that many of the infected patients at the Stockton hospital were on a type of antacid pill that is believed to make people more vulnerable to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/newsletters\/Harvard_Mens_Health_Watch\/2010\/June\/clostridium-difficile-an-intestinal-infection-on-the-rise\" target=\"_blank\"><em>C. difficile<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>the infection\u2019s nickname.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/centerforhealthreporting.org\/article\/dangerous-connection-exists-between-popular-antacids-and-deadly-infection998?page=full\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Deborah Schoch,\u00a0 CHCF Center for Health Reporting | October 15, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 Combing through the files of C. difficile patients, St. Joseph\u2019s Medical Pharmacy resident Wei Wang was surprised to <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=995\">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":[4,59],"tags":[200,461,462,463,464],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-c-difficile","tag-nexium","tag-prevacid","tag-prilosec","tag-proton-pump-inhibitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}