TY - JOUR AU - Faires, Meredith C. AU - Pearl, David L. AU - Ciccotelli, William A. AU - Berke, Olaf AU - Reid-Smith, Richard J. AU - Weese, J. Scott PY - 2014 DA - 2014/05/12 TI - Detection of Clostridium difficile infection clusters, using the temporal scan statistic, in a community hospital in southern Ontario, Canada, 2006–2011 JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 254 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - In hospitals, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) surveillance relies on unvalidated guidelines or threshold criteria to identify outbreaks. This can result in false-positive and -negative cluster alarms. The application of statistical methods to identify and understand CDI clusters may be a useful alternative or complement to standard surveillance techniques. The objectives of this study were to investigate the utility of the temporal scan statistic for detecting CDI clusters and determine if there are significant differences in the rate of CDI cases by month, season, and year in a community hospital. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-254 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-14-254 ID - Faires2014 ER -