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When Counting Central Line Infections Counts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mary Dixon-Woods and
Eli N. Perencevich
Mary Dixon-Woods
Affiliation:
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Eli N. Perencevich*
Affiliation:
Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa; and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
*
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and the Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System (152), 601 Highway 6 West, Iowa City, IA 52246 (eli-perencevich@uiowa.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 6 , June 2013, pp. 555 - 557
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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