Clostridium Difficile Mandatory Surveillance
- Abstract
- Results of the mandatory Clostridium difficile reporting scheme from all acute NHS trusts in England of cases of CDAD in patients aged 2 years and over.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Quarterly reports by age (<2yrs, 2-64yrs, <65yrs), financial year reports by age (<2yrs, 2-64yrs, <65yrs), annual reports for patients aged 65 years and older.
- Variables
- Trust code, trust variable, trust type, region, name of NHS trust, trust apportioned, all other cases, total number of cases.
- Keywords
- C.difficile, monitoring
- Identifier Variables
- NHS trust
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Quality measure, Proxies
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Disease Area
- Infectious diseases
- Data Available
- Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Health protection agency
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
- NHS provider trusts
- Availability
- Health protection agency
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.hpa.org.uk/[…]/1195733750761?p=1179745282408
- Contact
- hpa.enquiries@hpa.org.uk.