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Nursing Homes in States with Infection Control Training or Infection Reporting Have Reduced Infection Control Deficiency Citations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2015

Catherine C. Cohen ,
John Engberg ,
Carolyn T.A. Herzig ,
Andrew W. Dick  and
Patricia W. Stone
Catherine C. Cohen*
Affiliation:
Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy, New York, New York
John Engberg
Affiliation:
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Carolyn T.A. Herzig
Affiliation:
Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy, New York, New York Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York
Andrew W. Dick
Affiliation:
RAND Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts
Patricia W. Stone
Affiliation:
Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy, New York, New York
*
Address all correspondence to Catherine C. Cohen, PhD(c), BS, RN, 630 West 168th Street, Mail Code 6, Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy, New York, NY, USA ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 12 , December 2015 , pp. 1475 - 1476
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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