Courtesy of Isabelle Rocher year alone. Those figures bring the total number of deaths in
Montreal that CMAJ is aware of to at least 79, including that of a patient who died at St …

Published at www. cmaj. ca on Nov. 2, 2004. initially responding to a Radio-Canada news
report based on the Med-Echo data that caused a furor in the Quebec medical establishment …

C. difficile hits Sherbrooke, Que., hospital: 100 deaths Page 1 NEWS 436 JAMC • 31 AOÛT 2004;
171 (5) Doctors at a Sherbrooke, Que., hospital have lost 100 patients in the last 18 months to …

“I think surgeons need to know their own infection rates,” says Brien, a neurosurgeon.“As
part of the standard consent process they need to disclose what the infection rates are for …

Quebec's Ministry of Health and Social Services could eventually use the province's
administrative discharge database, known as Med-Echo, to replicate the study, Pépin …

Recent experience with influenza, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (also known as
SARS), avian influenza, and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj. 1040836 issue concerns the role of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in
promoting CDAD. Other factors that elevate the risk of CDAD include older age, recent …

The anaerobic bacterium Clostridium difficile is a major nosocomial pathogen, the most
commonly diagnosed cause of infectious hospital diarrhoea. 1 C. difficile infection has a …

The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is constantly changing and is
influenced by antibiotic usage patterns, healthcare patient environment, and emergence of …

England's Health Secretary launched a national inquiry June 14 into an outbreak of
Clostridium difficile that has killed at least 25 patients and infected 565 more at 2 hospitals …