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Ethical Aspects of Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Loreen A. Herwaldt
Loreen A. Herwaldt*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology, and Health Services Research, University of Iowa College of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
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Abstract

This article describes ethical dilemmas faced routinely by infection control personnel and outlines the basic principles of ethics as applied to the practice of infection control and hospital epidemiology.

Type
Practical Healthcare Epidemiology
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , February 1996 , pp. 108 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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