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CAUTI Surveillance: Opportunity or Opportunity Cost?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2015

Daniel J. Livorsi  and
Eli N. Perencevich
Daniel J. Livorsi*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa
Eli N. Perencevich
Affiliation:
Division of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City Veterans’ Affairs Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa
*
Address correspondence to Daniel Livorsi, MD, MSc, CADRE (152), Iowa VA Health Care System, 601 Highway 6 West, Iowa City, IA 52246 (daniel-livorsi@uiowa.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 11 , November 2015 , pp. 1335 - 1336
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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