RT Journal
A1 Voelker R
T1 Study: Vast majority of c difficile infections occur in medical settings
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD April 4
VO 307
IS 13
SP 1356
OP 1356
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.380
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.380
AB 
In fact, 94% of the potentially fatal infections are in people who recently received care in facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, physicians' offices, and outpatient surgical centers. To stem the rising tide of C difficile infections, CDC officials say hospitals and other health care settings need greater adherence to infection control practices and improved communication to notify each other whenever they transfer an infected patient.