WSES guidelines for management of Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients
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10.1186/s13017-015-0033-6
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In the last two decades there have been dramatic changes in the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), with increases in incidence and severity of disease in many countries worldwide. The incidence of CDI has also increased in surgical patients. Optimization of management of C difficile, has therefore become increasingly urgent. An international multidisciplinary panel of experts prepared evidenced-based World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for management of CDI in surgical patients.
1st Surgical Clinic University Hospital of St Ann Brno Brno Czech Republic
2nd Infectious Diseases Division National Institute for Infectious Diseases L Spallanzani Rome Italy
Abdominal Center Helsinki University Hospital Meilahti Helsinki Finland
Academic Department of Surgery Queen Elizabeth Hospital Edgbaston Birmingham UK
American Board of Surgery Philadelphia USA
AP HP Bichat hospital Medical and infectious diseases ICU Paris France
Clinic of Infectious Diseases St Orsola Malpighi University Hospital Bologna Italy
Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Ovidius University Constanta Romania
Critical Care Unit Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña A Coruña Spain
Department of Abdominal and General Surgery General Hospital Jesenice Jesenice Slovenia
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Ochsner Clinic Foundation New Orleans LA USA
Department of General Surgery Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital Adana Turkey
Department of General Surgery Medway Maritime Hospital Gillingham Kent UK
Department of General Surgery Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa Israel
Department of Infectious Diseases Jagiellonian University Medical College Kraków Poland
Department of Internal Medicine Pinnacle Health Hospital Harrisburg PA USA
Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital Dr José E González Monterrey Mexico
Department of Medical Microbiology King's College Hospital London UK
Department of Medicinal Chemistry School of Pharmacy University of Washington Washington USA
Department of Medicine Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London London UK
Department of Medicine Section of Infectious Diseases King Fahad Medical City Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Wayne State University Detroit MI USA
Department of Pathology University of Alberta Edmonton Edmonton AB Canada
Department of Pharmacy Practice St Louis College of Pharmacy St Louis MO USA
Department of Surgery Ancona University Hospital Ancona Italy
Department of Surgery Division of Acute Care Surgery University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI USA
Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Mahidol University Bangkok Thailand
Department of Surgery Hamad General Hospital Doha Qatar
Department of Surgery Macerata Hospital Via Santa Lucia 2 62019 Macerata Italy
Department of Surgery Mansoura Faculty of Medicine Mansoura University Mansoura Egypt
Department of Surgery Medical University of Plovdiv Plovdiv Bulgaria
Department of Surgery Northeast Ohio Medical University Summa Akron City Hospital Akron OH USA
Department of Surgery Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences Rohtak India
Department of Surgery Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham UK
Department of Surgery Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen Netherlands
Department of Surgery St Josef Hospital Ruhr University Bochum Bochum Germany
Department of Surgery Stanford University Stanford CA USA
Department of Surgery Tan Tock Seng Hospital Singapore Singapore
Department of Surgery The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Hershey PA USA
Department of Surgery University of Colorado Denver Health Medical Center Denver USA
Department of Surgery University of Florida Gainesville FL USA
Department of Surgery University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI USA
Department of Surgery University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela Spain
Department of Surgery Washington University School of Medicine Saint Louis USA
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine Mayo Clinic Rochester MN USA
Emergency Medicine and Surgery Macerata hospital Macerata Italy
Emergency Surgery and Trauma Unit Department of Surgery Ribeirão Preto Brazil
Emergency Surgery Department Maggiore Parma Hospital Parma Italy
Faculty of Medicine Transilvania University Infectious Diseases Hospital Brasov Romania
Gastroenterology Department Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra Coimbra Portugal
Gastroenterology Division Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Boston MA USA
General Surgery 1 Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital Bergamo Italy
Infection Control Unit Angers University CHU d'Angers Angers France
Infection Prevention Epidemiology Providence Saint John's Health Center Santa Monica CA USA
Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care Unit Pontchaillou University Hospital Rennes France
National Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile AP HP Saint Antoine Hospital Paris France
Research School of Population Health The Australian National University Acton ACT Australia
School of Medical Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia Kota Bharu Kelantan Malaysia
Service of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Geneva University Hospital Genève Switzerland
Surgery Department Hospital Universitario Juiz de Fora Brazil
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center Jerusalem Israel
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