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Barriers to and Facilitators of Implementing an Intervention to Reduce the Incidence of Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kristen M. Kidd ,
Ronda L. Sinkowitz-Cochran ,
Tara B. Giblin ,
Jerome I. Tokars ,
Denise M. Cardo ,
Steven L. Solomon  and
Prevention Epicenters Program
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 103 - 104
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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