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Home-Based Preoperative Chlorhexidine Bathing Cloths to Prevent Surgical Site Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joan Webster*
Affiliation:
Centre for Clinical Nursing, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Sonya Osborne
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
*
Level 2, Centre for Clinical Nursing, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia ([email protected])
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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