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Impact of tiered interventions to decrease routine urine cultures in asymptomatic patients undergoing arthroplasty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2018

Ebony C. Jackson Open the ORCID record for Ebony C. Jackson [Opens in a new window] ,
Xia C. Thai ,
Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha  and
Amanda E. Barner
Ebony C. Jackson*
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Xia C. Thai
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Amanda E. Barner
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Author for correspondence: Ebony C. Jackson, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA. E-mail: ecjackson@challiance.org
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 109 - 110
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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Cite this article: Jackson EC, et al. (2019). Impact of tiered interventions to decrease routine urine cultures in asymptomatic patients undergoing arthroplasty. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2019, 40, 109–110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.278

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