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The Relationship Between Infection Prevention Staffing Levels, Certification, and Publicly Reported Hospital-Acquired Condition Scores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2017

Marc-Oliver Wright ,
Emmanuel Sampene  and
Nasia Safdar
Marc-Oliver Wright*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin
Emmanuel Sampene
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, Wisconsin
Nasia Safdar
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, Wisconsin William S Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
*
Address correspondence to Marc-Oliver Wright, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI (mwright@uwhealth.org).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 11 , November 2017 , pp. 1370 - 1371
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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