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The Relationship Between APIC and SHEA “Closely Watched Trains”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

George W. Counts*
Affiliation:
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
*
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1124 Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98104
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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