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More Than a Cold: Hospital-Acquired Respiratory Viral Infections, Sick Leave Policy, and A Need for Culture Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2018

Eric J. Chow  and
Leonard A. Mermel
Eric J. Chow
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island Department of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Leonard A. Mermel*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
*
Address correspondence to Dr Leonard Mermel, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street Providence, RI 02905 (lmermel@lifespan.org).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 7 , July 2018 , pp. 861 - 862
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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