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Reply to Wolkewitz: When to Use Cumulative Risk-Based Versus Rate-Based Approaches in the Analysis of Hospital-Acquired Infection Risk Factors? That Depends on the Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

Kevin A. Brown ,
Nick Daneman ,
Vanessa Stevens ,
Tom H. Greene  and
Paul Arora
Kevin A. Brown*
Affiliation:
Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Nick Daneman
Affiliation:
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Canada
Vanessa Stevens
Affiliation:
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
Tom H. Greene
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
Paul Arora
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada Center for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
*
Address correspondence to Kevin A. Brown, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada (kevin.brown@oahpp.ca).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 9 , September 2016 , pp. 1124 - 1125
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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