Identification of Clostridium difficile Asymptomatic Carriers in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Table 1

Description of numeric variables, continuous or discrete, by median, 1st quartile, 3rd quartile, and comparisons between the two groups of patients ( pairs).

Variable	All patients	Cases	Controls
	Median (1, 3)	Median (1, Q3)	Median (1, 3)
Age (years)	68 (43, 78)	70 (46, 80)	66 (40, 77)	0.451
Number of comorbidities	1 (1, 2)	2 (1, 3)	1 (0, 2)	0.195
Number of antibiotics use before the requested PCR for C. difficile	1 (1, 2)	1 (1, 2)	1 (1, 2)	0.058
Duration of antibiotic use before the requested PCR for C. difficile (days)	4 (1, 8)	3 (1, 6)	5 (1, 8)	0.304

1: 1st quartile; 3: 3rd quartile; values were obtained by Wilcoxon’s test.