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Translating Evidence Into Practice: The Importance of Continuing Local Bacterial Surveillance Even When National Data Are Available

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Martin Darveau ,
Catherine Ducharme-Désilets ,
Patrick Archambault  and
Diane Marcoux
Martin Darveau*
Affiliation:
Pharmacy Department, Québec, Canada Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Affilié Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis, the Centre de recherche, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada
Catherine Ducharme-Désilets
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Patrick Archambault
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine and Unité de recherche en médecine d'urgence, Québec, Canada Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Affilié Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis, the Centre de recherche, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Québec, Canada
Diane Marcoux
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Québec, Canada
*
Pharmacy Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Affilié Hôtel–Dieu de Lévis, 143 rue Wolfe, Lévis, Québec G6V 3Z1, Canada ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 11 , November 2009 , pp. 1128 - 1130
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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