Study design:
We identified Cystic Fibrosis-related hospitalizations during the years
1997 to 2016 in the Kids’ Inpatient Database [KID] and compared
in-hospital mortality, Length of Stay [LOS], and hospital charges
among hospitalizations with and without a coexisting diagnosis ofC. difficile using logistic regression models for mortality and
general linear models with gamma distribution and logarithmic
transformation for LOS and hospital charges. We also evaluated temporal
trends in the proportion of CF hospitalizations with concomitant CDI
using data published triennially