Glucocorticoids Are Associated With Increased Risk of Short-Term Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Clostridium difficile -Associated Disease

Abstract

Mortality of patients with CDAD on glucocorticoids, regardless of the severity of CDAD, was significantly higher than the mortality of patients with CDAD not on glucocorticoids and those on glucocorticoids with symptomatic diarrhea and without C. difficile infection.