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Approaches for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections: Go Long or Go Wide?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Edward Septimus ,
Robert A. Weinstein ,
Trish M. Perl ,
Donald A. Goldmann  and
Deborah S. Yokoe
Edward Septimus*
Affiliation:
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, Tennessee
Robert A. Weinstein
Affiliation:
Stroger Hospital and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Trish M. Perl
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Donald A. Goldmann
Affiliation:
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Deborah S. Yokoe
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
*
4257 Albans, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77005 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 7 , July 2014 , pp. 797 - 801
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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