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Electronic Medical Records: Unintended Consequences of a Duplicitous Default Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tariq Iqbal*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
Edward C. Oldfield III
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
*
Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Avenue, Suite 410, Norfolk, VA 23507 (bluestarl23@ gmail.com)
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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