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Toward Better Benchmarking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Richard Platt
Richard Platt*
Affiliation:
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School; and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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133 Brookline Ave., 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. Richard_Platt@harvard.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , May 2005 , pp. 433 - 434
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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