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Making Surgical Care Better: Hard Work, Small Gains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

James T. Lee
James T. Lee*
Affiliation:
Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, St Paul, Minnesota
*
Veterans' Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, 250 E Sixth St, Ste 808, St Paul, MN 55101-1943
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 6 - 8
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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