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Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance: Moving Beyond Description to Prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bonnie L. Zell  and
Donald A. Goldmann
Bonnie L. Zell*
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and George W. Merck Fellow, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Donald A. Goldmann
Affiliation:
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts
*
20 University Road, 7th floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 (bzell@ihi.org)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , March 2007 , pp. 261 - 264
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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