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work_xrtxepuisjaghorh76e463kfxe	Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz	The Relationship between Different Types of Sharps Containers and C. difficile Infection Rates in Acute Care Hospitals	2015	1	.pdf	application/pdf	727	86	60	The Relationship Between Different Types of Sharps Containers and C. difficile Infections Rates in Acute Care Hospitals The potential for sharps containers to become a source of To describe the use of different types of sharps containers in single-use sharps containers and rates of C. difficile infection rates as identified by ICD-9 codes. difficile infection rates between hospitals single-use sharps containers examined 539 hospitals provided data on the type of sharps containers Participating hospitals were predominantly non-for-profit The majority of hospital utilized reusable sharps containers reusable sharps containers differed In bivariate regression, hospitals using single use sharps hospitals using reusable sharps containers single-use sharps containers and lower C. environmental contamination of reusable sharps disposal the role that sharps containers may play in pathogen Geographic Region Ownership Status South 217 (40.3) Government 65 (12.1) difficile infection rates Single Use Sharps Container† -0.1395 0.0474 0.003 0.870 Bacterial and viral contamination of reusable sharps containers in a community 	./cache/work_xrtxepuisjaghorh76e463kfxe.pdf	./txt/work_xrtxepuisjaghorh76e463kfxe.txt