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Transmissions From Infected Healthcare Providers to Patients Are Medical Errors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bernadette Stringer*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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