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Analysis of Infection Control Surveillance Data in a Long-Term–Care Facility: Use of Threshold Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Birnbaum
David Birnbaum*
Affiliation:
Applied Epidemiology, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 6 , June 1996 , pp. 348 - 349
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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