Incidence of Early and Late-Onset Clostridioides difficile Infection following Appendectomy Compared to Other Common Abdominal Surgical Procedures

Table 1

Demographic and clinical data according to the four groups.

	Appendectomy	Right colectomy	Left colectomy	Cholecystectomy	Total
n	4578	1081	357	6023	12039
% laparoscopic	55%	2%	1%	59%	51%
Median age (range)	23 (0.5–89) years	59 (0.5–89) years	62 (0.5–88) years	48 (0.5–89) years	41 (0.5–89) years
% female	53%	50%	49%	66%	59%
% Caucasian	77%	79%	77%	81%	79%
Median LOS (range)	2 (0.5–441) days	8 (0.5–1370) days	10 (1–214) days	3 (0.5–327) days	3 (0.5–1370) days
Pre-op infection	1%	3%	2%	2%	2%
Post-op infection	6%	18%	25%	9%	9%
n, CDAC	107	73	23	241	444
% CDAC	2.3%	6.8%	6.4%	4.0%	3.7%
Median time to CDAC (range)	76 (1–6011) days	54 (2–4621) days	23 (3–5633) days	122 (1–5383) days	76 (1–6011) days
CDAC onset after 1 year	40 (37%)	15 (21%)	4 (17%)	93 (39%)	154 (34%)