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The New Prospective Payment System and Antibiotic Utilization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter A. Gross
Peter A. Gross*
Affiliation:
Hackensack Medical Center Hackensack, New Jersey
*
Department of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Medical Center, 30 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 7 , July 1984 , pp. 319 - 320
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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