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Reply to Moehring et al

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Taliser R. Avery*
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Ken P. Kleinman
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Michael Klompas
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Ann Aschengrau
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Susan S. Huang
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California
*
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and HPHC Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 (taliser_avery@hphc.org)
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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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