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Moving to a More Level Playing Field: The Need for Risk Adjustment of Publicly Reported Hospital CLABSI Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2017

Thomas R. Talbot
Thomas R. Talbot*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
Address correspondence to Thomas R. Talbot, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, A2200 Medical Center North, 1161 21st Ave South, Nashville, TN 37232 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 9 , September 2017 , pp. 1025 - 1026
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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