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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2014 Oct 2;35(11):1391–1399. doi: 10.1086/678410

Table 1.

Criteria for Candidate Definition of Mucosal-barrier Injury associated Gastrointestinal Insufficiency Event

Patient Factors Underlying Intestinal Condition Autoimmune enteropathy
Bowel resection for trauma, tumor, ischemia, obstruction, gastrointestinal congenital anomaly^
Gastroschisis or Omphalocele
Necrotizing enterocolitis
Inflammatory bowel disease
Intestinal aganglionosis
Intestinal atresia
Intestinal pseudo-obstruction
Intestinal transplantation
Microvillous inclusion disease
Midgut volvulus
Motility disorder
Radiation enteritis
Tufting enteropathy
Evidence of Intestinal Insufficiency Receipt of PN within 7 days prior to onset of infection
Organism NHSN-defined MBI Organisms^ Bacteroides species
Candida species
Clostridium species
Enterobacteriaceae
Enterococcus species
Fusobacterium species
Peptostreptococcus species
Prevotella species
Veillonella species
^

excludes esophageal anomalies