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Healthcare Behaviors and Risky Business First, Do No Harm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
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Building 10, Room 6-1480, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892., [email protected]
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 9 , September 2005 , pp. 739 - 744
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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