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Occupational exposures in US obstetrics and gynecology resident physicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2021

Alison A. Garrett Open the ORCID record for Alison A. Garrett [Opens in a new window]  and
Harold C. Wiesenfeld
Alison A. Garrett*
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Harold C. Wiesenfeld
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*
Author for correspondence: Alison A. Garrett, E-mail: garrettaa@upmc.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , April 2021 , pp. 485 - 486
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. This research was presented at the 2020 Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology & Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, on February 26–29, 2020.

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