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The Price of a Surgical-Site Infection: More Than Just Excess Length of Stay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Edward S. Wong
Edward S. Wong*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Section, Department of Medicine, McGuire Veterans' Affairs Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
*
McGuire Veterans' Affairs Hospital(111-C), 1201 Broad Rock Blvd. Richmond, VA 23249
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 11 , November 1999 , pp. 722 - 724
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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