Are hospitals doing all they can to prevent C. difficile infections? Not yet, new study suggests

Friday, April 24, 2015 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

Nearly half of American hospitals aren’t taking key steps to prevent C. difficile, a kind of gut infection that kills nearly 30,000 people annually and sickens hundreds of thousands more – despite strong evidence that such steps work, according to a new study.

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