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The Medical Waste Conundrum Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Stephen A. Streed*
Affiliation:
North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
*
North Carolina Baptist Hospital, 300 South Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27103
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Abstract

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Type
Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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