| Literature DB >> 21666407 |
Philip M Polgreen1, Ming Yang, Jennifer L Kuntz, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Joseph E Cavanaugh.
Abstract
Sales for a drug may be correlated with the prevalence of a condition treated by the drug. We found that state data revealed a strong spatial association and national data a strong temporal association between Clostridium difficile and oral vancomycin prescription sales, suggesting a new "signal" for detecting disease activity.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21666407 PMCID: PMC3258488 DOI: 10.1086/660858
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol ISSN: 0899-823X Impact factor: 3.254