Assessing the effect of patient screening and isolation on curtailing Clostridium difficile infection in hospital settings.

This resulted in an increasing trend in the percentage reduction of C. difficile incidence over time, reaching levels over 76% and comparable to those achieved with screening patients only at the time of hospital admission when the effectiveness of patient isolation is assumed to be 100% (Fig. 5a , black curve).

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