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Education-Based Intervention to Prevent Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Caroline Marshall*
Affiliation:
Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, and the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Jim Black
Affiliation:
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
*
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan St., Parkville, Victoria, 3050, Australia ([email protected])
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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