Renfrew Victoria Hospital takes your care and your safety very seriously, and we are committed to transparency. On a monthly basis, beginning in September 2008, we will be reporting our C. difficile infection rates on our website.

If you have any questions about the information below or about our hospital’s infection prevention and control program, please contact Sheila Havey at 613-432-4851 ext 262.

C. difficile Rate:
The C. difficile infection rate is calculated as a rate per 1,000 patient days.

The “total patient days” represents the sum of the number of days during which services were provided to all inpatients during the given time period.

The rate is calculated as follows:

Number of new hospital acquired cases of C. difficile in our facility  x 1000
Total number of patient days (for one month)

For smaller facilities:
C. difficile rates may vary from month to month: the smaller the facility, the greater the rates will vary—this is because a change in even one case in a small facility will cause the rate to go up or down considerably.

What is a C. difficile Outbreak?

Definitions have been developed to assist hospitals and public health units in determining when there is an outbreak.

There are no outbreaks of C. difficile at Renfrew Victoria Hospital.

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