Patients’ Experience and Perception of Hospital-Treated Clostridium difficile Infections: a Qualitative Study

Isabelle Guillemin (), Alexia Marrel, Jérémy Lambert, Axelle Beriot-Mathiot, Carole Doucet, Odysseas Kazoglou, Christine Luxemburger, Camille Reygrobellet and Benoit Arnould

The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 2014, vol. 7, issue 1, 97-105

Abstract: As one patient in this study explained, CDI is “the worst of everything that I’ve had.” The emotional distress and extreme physical exhaustion associated with CDI result in a traumatic and frightening experience for patients. This trauma persists after recovery and includes lingering fears of a recurrent episode. Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

Date: 2014
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