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Reimbursement for Nosocomial Infections Under the Prospective Payment Plan: The Future or Decline of Infection Control?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce F. Farber
Bruce F. Farber*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicineand VA Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , September 1984 , pp. 425 - 426
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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