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Steady increases in the rate and severity of
The title and the goals of the project have remained the same since the publication of the 60-day
The surveillance population will consist of persons residing in the catchment area of the participating Emerging Infections Program (EIP) sites who are 1 year of age or older. This surveillance poses no more than minimal risk to the study participants as there will be no interventions or modifications to the care study participants receive.
EIP surveillance personnel will perform active case finding from laboratory reports of stool specimens testing positive for
A total of 600 individuals who develop CDI will be contacted for a telephone interview annually and, of those, it is estimated that 500 will meet study inclusion criteria. The interview screening is estimated to take 5 minutes and the full telephone interview is estimated to take 40 minutes. Therefore, the total estimated annualized burden for this data collection is estimated to be 383 hours.
There are no costs to the respondents other than their time.