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Cumulative Attributable Difference: An Infection Metric That Reflects a Value System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2015

Makoto M. Jones ,
Richard E. Nelson  and
Michael A. Rubin
Makoto M. Jones*
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Richard E. Nelson
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael A. Rubin
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
*
Address correspondence to Makoto M. Jones, MD, MS, 500 Foothill Drive, Mailstop 182, Salt Lake City, Utah 84148 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 12 , December 2015 , pp. 1385 - 1387
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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