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Section 6 - Special Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2018

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Ebbing Lautenbach: Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Preeti N. Malani: Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Keith F. Woeltje: Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis
Jennifer H. Han: Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Emily K. Shuman: Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jonas Marschall: Affiliation:
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis

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Information: Practical Healthcare Epidemiology , pp. 271 - 427

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