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Infection Prevention and Control > - C difficile > Our Rates
C. Difficile

Our Rates
The C difficile infection rate is calculated as a rate per 1,000 patient days. The "total patient days" represents the sum of the number of days during which services were provided to all inpatients during the given time period. The rate is calculated as follows:

Number of new hospital acquired case of C. difficile in our facility X 1000
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Total number of patient days (for one month)

Cornwall Community Hospital has two sites. The McConnell site has 126 beds and the Second St. site has 44 beds. Rates will be calculated separately for the two sites.

For smaller sites:
C. difficile rates may vary from month to month: the smaller the site, the greater the rates will vary- this is because a change in even one case in a small site will cause the rate to go up or down considerably.


McConnell Site

01/2012
02/2012

03/2012

Number of new cases

<5

<5

 <5
C Diff Rate

0.53

0.56

 0.00


Second Street Site

01/2012

02/2012

 03/2012

Number of new cases  

0 0
 0
C Diff Rate

0.00

 0.00
 0.00




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