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A Gown Is a Gown Is a Gown: Or Is It?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nathan L. Belkin*
Affiliation:
Clearwater, Florida
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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