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A Gown Is a Gown Is a Gown: Or Is It?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nathan L. Belkin
Nathan L. Belkin*
Affiliation:
Clearwater, Florida
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , April 2003 , pp. 234 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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