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Discrepancies between Surveillance Definition and the Clinical Incidence of Clostridium difficile Infection in a Veterans Affairs Long-Term Care Facility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Alison Han  and
Robin L. P. Jump
Alison Han
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Robin L. P. Jump*
Affiliation:
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; and Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
*
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, 111C(W), Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 (robinjump@gmail.com).
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Letter to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 11 , November 2014 , pp. 1435 - 1436
Copyright
© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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