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Prospective Multihospital Surveillance Studies—A Controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Elisheva Simchen ,
Yohanan Wax ,
Mervyn Shapiro  and
Theodore Sacks
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , March 1989 , pp. 94 - 98
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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