Trends in Incidence and Clinical Outcomes of Clostridioides difficile Infection, Hong Kong.

Emerg Infect Dis · 2021 · PMC8632188 · PMID 34812719

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an obvious trendp = 0.354not close (p > 0.1)

Although the 30-day mortality rate for HA-CDI decreased from 2015 to 2019, we did not observe an obvious trend in mortality rate for CA-CDI patients (p = 0.354) (Appendix Table 1).

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

One potential explanation is that Hong Kong still has lower rates of inflammatory bowel disease compared with Western countries, despite an increasing trend in these illnesses over the past few decades ( 22 , 24 ).

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