Economic burden of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea: a cost-of-illness study from a German tertiary care hospital

摘要

Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea (CDAD) is the most common cause of health-care-associated infectious diarrhoea. In the context of the German health-care system, direct and indirect costs of an initial episode of CDAD and of CDAD recurrence are currently unknown.