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Hospital Clostridium difficile Infection Testing Rates: Is “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” at Play?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Kevin A. Brown ,
David N. Fisman  and
Nick Daneman
Kevin A. Brown*
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
David N. Fisman
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nick Daneman
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (kevin.brown@mail.utoronto.ca).
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 7 , July 2014 , pp. 911 - 912
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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