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Raising the Bar: The Need for Standardizing the Use of “Standard Precautions” as a Primary Intervention to Prevent Occupational Exposures to Bloodborne Pathogens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
*
National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 2C146, 9000 Rockville Pk, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , February 2001 , pp. 70 - 72
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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