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Impact of Changes to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Rates in Intensive Care Units at an Academic Medical Center
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2017
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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. The data from this study were presented in part at the 54th Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, IDWeek 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 28, 2016 (abstract 945, session 131).
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