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Reply to Crnich and Drinka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce Y. Lee ,
Sarah M. Bartsch  and
Susan S. Huang
Bruce Y. Lee*
Affiliation:
Public Health Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sarah M. Bartsch
Affiliation:
Public Health Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Susan S. Huang
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, California
*
University of Pittsburgh, 200 Meyran Avenue, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (byl1@pitt.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 6 , June 2013 , pp. 647 - 648
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