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Administrative Controls for TB: “Keep Doing What You've Always Done, and You'll Get What You Always Got”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Rebecca Wurtz*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois, and the Department of Medicine, Northwestern, University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
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Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave, Evanston IL 60201; e-mail, [email protected]
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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