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Choices: A Brief Review of Economic Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Sam Sheps  and
David Birnbaum
Sam Sheps*
Affiliation:
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
David Birnbaum
Affiliation:
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Vancouver, and Applied Epidemiology, Sidney
*
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, 5804 Wirview Ave., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 123
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Statistics for Hospital Epidemiology
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 6 , June 1993 , pp. 337 - 341
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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