TY - JOUR
T1 - Using oral vancomycin prescriptions as a proxy measure for Clostridium difficile infections
T2 - A spatial and time series analysis
AU - Polgreen, Philip M.
AU - Yang, Ming
AU - Kuntz, Jennifer L.
AU - Laxminarayan, Ramanan
AU - Cavanaugh, Joseph E.
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - Sales for a drug may be correlated with the prevalence of a condition treated by the drug. We found that state data revealed a strong spatial association and national data a strong temporal association between Clostridium difficile and oral vancomycin prescription sales, suggesting a new "signal" for detecting disease activity.
AB - Sales for a drug may be correlated with the prevalence of a condition treated by the drug. We found that state data revealed a strong spatial association and national data a strong temporal association between Clostridium difficile and oral vancomycin prescription sales, suggesting a new "signal" for detecting disease activity.
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U2 - 10.1086/660858
DO - 10.1086/660858
M3 - Article
C2 - 21666407
AN - SCOPUS:79958749951
SN - 0899-823X
VL - 32
SP - 723
EP - 726
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
IS - 7
ER -