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Main points

• In 2014 there were 111 death certificates mentioning Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) in Wales, 66 fewer than in 2013 (177 deaths).
• C. difficile was recorded as the underlying cause of death on 42 of the 111 (38%) death certificates mentioning it.
• The age-standardised rate for deaths involving C. difficile increased, from 22.6 to 164.8 deaths per million population, between 1999 and 2008. The rate has since fallen significantly by 78% to 35.8 per million in 2014.
• Deaths involving C. difficile increased with age. In the period 2012 to 2014, the age-specific death rate for those aged 85 years and over was 995.3 per million population, compared with 1.0 per million population for those aged under 55 years.
• In 2014, over 95% of deaths involving C. difficile deaths occurred in hospitals.

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