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Acquisition of Clostridium difficile and Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in hospitalized patients receiving tube feedingD Z Bliss
University of Minnesota School of Nursing and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis 55455 0324, USA
Ann Intern Med 129:1012-9. 1998..Clostridium difficile is the most common infectious cause of nosocomial diarrhea, but its role in diarrhea associated with tube feeding has not been rigorously investigated...
Fecal incontinence in hospitalized patients who are acutely illD Z Bliss
University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis 55455 0324, USA
Nurs Res 49:101-8. 2000..Information about fecal incontinence experienced by patients in acute-care settings is lacking. The relationship of fecal incontinence to several well-known nosocomial or iatrogenic causes of diarrhea has not been determined...
Supplementation with dietary fiber improves fecal incontinenceD Z Bliss
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Nurs Res 50:203-13. 2001..Because fecal incontinence has been shown to be exacerbated by liquid stools or diarrhea, management strategies that make stool consistency less loose or liquid may be useful...
Reliability of a stool consistency classification systemD Zimmaro Bliss
University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, USA
J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs 28:305-13. 2001..This research determined the inter-rater and test-retest reliability of a stool consistency classification system and the agreement between the subjects' and expert investigators' classifications...
