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No Room at the Inn Fever and Respiratory Illness Precautions and the Placement of Patients Within an Ontario Acute Care Institution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Steven J. Drews ,
Janet Raboud  and
Kevin C. Katz
Steven J. Drews
Affiliation:
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Janet Raboud
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Sciences, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Canada University Health Network, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Kevin C. Katz*
Affiliation:
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Canada University Health Network, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Canada University of Toronto, and the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Infection Prevention and Control, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
*
Infection Prevention and Control, North York General Hospital, 4001 Leslie Street, Suite GW-33, Toronto, ON M2K1E1, Canada (kkatz@nygh.on.ca)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 109 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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