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Clostridium Difficile Prevalence and Vancomycin, Fidaxomicin, and Tocilizumab Use

    Basic Details
    Date Posted
    Status
    Complete
    Medical Product
    fidaxomicin
    tocilizumab
    vancomycin
    Health Outcome(s)
    clostridium difficile
    Description

    These reports examine counts and prevalence of one ICD-9-CM diagnosis code for Clostridium difficile as well as prevalent and incident use of generic drugs vancomycin, fidaxomicin, and tocilizumab in the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database (MSDD). The queries were run against the ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Summary Table and were distributed on July 22, 2013 to 17 Data Partners. These reports include information from 16 Data Partners. 

    Additional Details
    FDA Center
    CDER
    Time Period
    January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2012
    Analysis Type
    Summary Table
    Data Sources
    Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database (MSDD)