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Note from the Associate Editorial Director

Setting the outpatient CDI table

By Melissa Varnavas

The stew’s been simmering in the pot for a while now. All the separate ingredients are melding and the overwhelming aroma in the room is enticing. The stew is outpatient CDI. Its ingredients are multitudinous, varied. Yet, we have a basic recipe to follow thanks to those taste-testing the mixture over the past few years and sharing their samplings with the rest of the CDI community.
 

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