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Table 2 CDI-specific patients’ characteristics of the study population stratified for 28-day mortality

From: Initial therapy affects duration of diarrhoea in critically ill patients with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI)

Patients’ characteristics

All patients with CDI

n = 132

28-day survivors

n = 96

28-day non-survivors

n = 36

p

Time from ICU admission to CDI diagnosis (days) (median, IQR 25–75)

13.5 (5–28)

12.5 (5–27)

17.5 (5–34)

0.378

Antibiotic therapy on ICU, n (%)

126 (95.5)

91 (94.8)

35 (97.2)

0.550

Recurrent CDI, n (%)

25 (18.9)

16 (16.7)

9 (25)

0.276

Severe CDI, n (%)

80 (60.6)

55 (57.3)

25 (69.4)

0.349