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Hepatitis C Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for Healthcare Personnel: Policy Analysis Among Philadelphia’s Large Teaching Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2016

Gina M. Simoncini  and
Amy B. Jessop
Gina M. Simoncini*
Affiliation:
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Amy B. Jessop
Affiliation:
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*
Address correspondence to Gina M. Simoncini, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 1316 W. Ontario Street, First Floor, Jones Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19140 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , February 2017 , pp. 246 - 248
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: A poster of this study was presented at the American Public Health Association’s 2016 Annual Meeting and Expo on November 1, 2016, in Denver, Colorado.

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