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Industry Has Not Eliminated Needlestick Injury: Is It Time for Personal or Federal Intervention, or Both?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paul Martin Kempen
Paul Martin Kempen*
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , April 1996 , pp. 209 - 211
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996 

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