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Starting to Learn About the Costs of Nosocomial Infections in the New Millennium: Where Do We Go From Here?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Victoria J. Fraser
Victoria J. Fraser*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Washington University School of Medicine, and Medical Director, BJC Infection Control Consortium, St. Louis, Missouri
*
Box 8051, 660 S. Euclid, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , April 2002 , pp. 174 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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