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Review of Evidence for Alcohol-Based Skin Preparation Agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

AkkeNeel Talsma  and
Carol E. Chenoweth
AkkeNeel Talsma*
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Carol E. Chenoweth
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Health System, Infectious Diseases, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*
School of Nursing, University of Michigan, 400 North Ingalls, Room 4154, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 10 , October 2012 , pp. 1059 - 1060
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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