Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Outpatient Antibiotic Use for Clostridioides difficile-Indicated Agents in British Columbia, from 2000 to 2018

Table 2

Percentage of CDI-indicated antibiotics linked to the outpatient (ICD-9 diagnostic code “008”) database and the discharge (hospital) database (ICD-10 diagnostic code “A04.7”) throughout the entire study period, 2000–18.

Type of antibiotic	Count linked to “008”	Percentage linked (%)	Count linked to “A04.7”	Percentage linked (%)
Metronidazole	5565	0.37	2768	0.18
Vancomycin	2633	6.05	1386	3.18
Fidaxomicin	53	18.03	15	5.10
Overall	8251	0.53	4169	0.27