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Electronic Medical Records: Unintended Consequences of a Duplicitous Default Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tariq Iqbal  and
Edward C. Oldfield III
Tariq Iqbal*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
Edward C. Oldfield III
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia
*
Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Avenue, Suite 410, Norfolk, VA 23507 (bluestarl23@ gmail.com)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 11 , November 2010 , pp. 1198 - 1199
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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