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“CDC Says …”: The Case of IV Tubing Replacement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Charles S. Bryan
Charles S. Bryan*
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina
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Richland Memorial Hospital, ACC 2, Columbia, SC 29203
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 6 , June 1987 , pp. 255 - 256
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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