Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) in California Hospitals

The SIR is a metric that summarizes an individual hospital’s CDI prevention progress compared with the national baseline and California state-specific prevention goals. Detailed information about the variables included in each dataset are described in the accompanying data dictionaries for the year of interest. For more information about the SIR and NHSN’s statistical models that are used to calculate the predicted number of CDI for each hospital, please review “NHSN’s Guide to the SIR”: cdc.gov/nhsn/ps-analysis-resources/index.html For general information about NHSN, surveillance definitions, and reporting requirements for CDI, please visit: cdc.gov/nhsn/index.html To link the CDPH facility IDs with those from other Departments, including OSHPD, please reference the "Licensed Facility Cross-Walk" Open Data table at: data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/licensed-facility-crosswalk.

For information about healthcare-associated infection prevention progress in California hospitals and statewide prevention goals, please visit: cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/HAI/Pages/HAIreport.aspx