Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Patients

Characteristic	Community-Onset Diarrhea (n = 422)		Hospital-Onset Diarrhea (n = 112)		P Value
Unique patients	314	74.40%	102	91.10%	<.005
Age on admission, years, median (IQR)	55.9	41.7–64.3	57.5	49.2–66.1	.273
Race					.004
White	213	50.5	72	64.3
Black	112	26.5	17	15.2
Asian	21	5	6	5.4
Other	57	13.5	7	6.3
Declined	16	3.8	7	6.3
Unknown	3	0.7	3	2.7
Transplant type					.003
Kidney alone	169	40.1	23	20.5
Liver alone	95	22.5	37	33
Heart alone	47	11.1	13	11.6
Bowel alone	3	0.7	0	0
Simultaneousa	60	14.2	24	21.4
Recurrentb	46	10.9	14	12.5
Other transplantc	2	0.5	1	0.89
Transplant occurred during admission	0	0	38	33.9	<.005
Days from first transplant to diarrhea, median (IQR)	1028.6	240.4–2372.1	242.9	0.3–2091	<.005
Past medical history of diarrhea
NOS	101	23.9	17	15.2	.054
Clostridium difficile	59	14	11	9.82	.274
CMV viremia, disease, or enteritis	17	4.03	2	1.79	.39
Norovirus	17	4.03	4	3.57	.99
Other pathogend	5	1.18	0	0	.589

Data are presented as No. (%) unless otherwise specified.

Abbreviations: CMV, cytomegalovirus; IQR, interquartile range; NOS, not otherwise specified.

^a Simultaneous includes pancreas and kidney (38 [9.0%] vs 7 [6.3%]); liver and kidney (22 [5.2%] vs 16 [14.3%]); heart and kidney (0 vs 1 [0.9%]).

^b Recurrent includes pancreas after kidney (10 [2.4%] vs 3 [2.7%]); kidney after kidney (11 [2.6%] vs 2 [1.8%]); liver after liver (9 [2.1%] vs 3 [2.7%]); other (16 [3.8%] vs 6 [5.4%]).

^c Other transplant includes pancreas only (1 [0.2%] vs 0) and lung only (1 [0.2%] vs 1 [0.9%]).

^d Other pathogen includes Campylobacter (n = 3), Giardia (n = 2), Salmonella (n = 1).