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Resources » PIDAC Knowledge Products (best practice documents) » Testing, Surveillance and Management of Clostridium Difficile	- | +  Français
Testing, Surveillance and Management of Clostridium Difficile

This annex is added as an extension to PIDAC’s ‘Routine Practices and Additional Precautions’ and deals with the prevention and control of transmission of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) in acute and non-acute health care settings across the continuum of care including, but not limited to, acute care, long-term care, chronic (including mental health) care and home health care. This annex does not address province-wide surveillance and reporting of C. difficile infection (CDI). Each facility should develop a plan for the prevention and control of CDI.

This annex sets out the specific infection prevention and control practices to:

• Prevent the transmission of CDI to other patients
• Assist health care providers to promptly identify clusters of CDI
• Assist health care providers in the management of patients with CDI and outbreaks related to CDI.

Note: More information regarding the infection prevention and control management of clients/ patients/ residents with C. difficile infection is detailed in Section II.2.E of ‘Routine Practices and Additional Precautions.’

Download Clostridium difficile in Health Care Settings: Information for Health Care Professionals (3 pages, PDF, 105 Kb).

Download Clostridium difficile Associated Disease (CDAD): Fact Sheet for Patients (2 pages, PDF, 50 Kb).

Click below to download Testing, Surveillance and Management of Clostridium difficile in all health care settings (20 pages, PDF, 325 Kb).

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