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Risk Assessment in Infection Control: Which Risks?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Millar
Michael Millar*
Affiliation:
Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
*
Barts and The London NHS Trust, 3rd Floor, Pathology and Pharmacy Building, 80 Newark Street, London El 2ES, UK (michael.millar@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , April 2008 , pp. 381 - 382
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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