Time for a hospital antacid policy on Clostridium difficile
- 17 January 2008
- Vol. 336 (7636), 109.2-109
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39458.465845.3a
Abstract
Footnotes Competing interests: None declared.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Overprescribing proton pump inhibitorsBMJ, 2008
- Inappropriate Continuation of Stress Ulcer Prophylactic Therapy After DischargeAnnals of Pharmacotherapy, 2007
- Vegetative Clostridium difficile Survives in Room Air on Moist Surfaces and in Gastric Contents with Reduced Acidity: a Potential Mechanism To Explain the Association between Proton Pump Inhibitors and C. difficile -Associated Diarrhea?Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2007
- Stress ulcer prophylaxis in hospitalized patients not in intensive care unitsAmerican Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2007
- Inadequate Use of Acid-Suppressive Therapy in Hospitalized Patients and Its Implications for General PracticeDigestive Diseases and Sciences, 2005