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Figure 1: Population rates of community-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea among people 65 years and older who required hospital admission in Quebec. Error bars = 95% confidence intervals.
Figure 2: Distribution of community-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea as a function of time from hospital admission in the 2 years before the index admission.
Figure 3: Adjusted rate ratios (RRs) of Clostridium difficile infection among patients exposed to antibiotics and gastric suppressive therapy in the 45 days before the index date compared with patients not exposed in that period. Adjustments were made for the variables in Table 1 and for the agents listed in the above figure. CI = 95% confidence interval.
Figure 4: Risk of hospital admission because of Clostridium difficile infection as a function of time from most recent antibiotic prescription. Values shown are rate ratios for patients with C. difficile infection (n = 836) relative to those without C. difficile infection (n = 8360).