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Cost Improvement Through Prudent Infection Control in a Brazilian Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Heiko Geiss
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , May 1993 , pp. 250
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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