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Reply to Lewis et al

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Z. David*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Robert S. Daum
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
*
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC6054, Chicago, IL 60637 (mdavid@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu)
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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