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Table 5:

Top suggestions by C. diff stool assay, scored and ranked by conditionalFreq(B|A) day , but filtered to only include those with freqRatio(B|A) day >= 1. Suggestions are more meaningfully associated with the query order, including diagnostics for diarrhea (stool culture, ova & parasites) as well as therapeutics and management for C. diff colitis (metronidazole, oral vancomycin, contact isolation, lactobacillus probiotics).

Rank Order Description Frequency / Likelihood
Conditional Baseline Ratio
1 Metronidazole (Oral) 0.14 0.05 2.56
2 STOOL CULTURE 0.13 0.03 4.24
3 CONTACT ISOLATION 0.12 0.06 1.97
4 OVA AND PARASITES 0.10 0.02 4.07
5 Metronidazole (Intravenous) 0.09 0.06 1.51
6 Vancomycin (Oral) 0.06 0.02 3.19
7 FUNGAL CULTURE AND KOH 0.05 0.04 1.36
8 TRIGLYCERIDES, PLEURAL 0.03 0.02 1.33
9 CMV IGM 0.03 0.02 1.70
10 Lactobacillus Acidophilus (Oral) 0.03 0.02 1.33