Comparative impacts of antibiotic courses on C. difficile infection risk: what we can glean from a comprehensive, data-driven, antibiotic risk measurement model

Please join us …

When: Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 12–1 p.m.

Where: ICES, G-Wing, Conference Centre (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)

Who: Kevin Brown, PhD; Scientist, Infection Prevention and Control, Public Health Ontario; Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Adjunct Scientist, ICES.

Topic: Comparative impacts of antibiotic courses on C. difficile infection risk: what we can glean from a comprehensive, data-driven, antibiotic risk measurement model.

Learning objectives

1. review current knowledge regarding antibiotic-mediated C. difficile infection risk
2. understand how an antibiotic risk measurement model that incorporates magnitude, duration, and latency helps to accurately quantify comparative risk
3. use a pilot, web-based, clinical prediction tool to compare risk associated with different courses that clinicians may prescribe.

Kevin Brown