The AGA GI Patient Center has released a new resource to support patients infected with C. difficile. The resource includes “Understanding C. diff infection” video and a patient brochure entitled “Navigating Your C. diff Diagnosis.”
C. diff, a bacterium known to cause bad GI symptoms like nausea and watery diarrhea, infects nearly 500,000 Americans every year and often calls for hospitalization. The AGA GI Patient Center has curated a new patient education page to assist and to share directly with your patients to prepare them for their visit. The article includes C. difficile-specific guidance on:
• Symptoms.
• Risk factors.
• Getting tested.
• Treatment.
• Complications.
Share this new resource with your patients by printing, linking from your practice website, or emailing the link to your patients. Visit gastro.org/cdiff to view the new video and brochure.
The “Navigating Your C. diff Diagnosis” brochure was reviewed by Rajeev Jain, MD, AGAF, AGA Patient Education Advisor, Texas Digestive Disease Consultants, Dallas, and Alexander Khoruts, MD, AGA Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education Scientific Advisory Board, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. AGA members will also receive print copies of the new brochure this month.
This program was supported by an independent educational grant from Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
