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Too Many or Too Few Hands?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 9 , September 1999 , pp. 595 - 597
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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