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Patient Injury From Flash-Sterilized Instruments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

William A. Rutala ,
David J. Weber  and
Kathryn J. Chappell
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Kathryn J. Chappell
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 7 , July 1999 , pp. 458
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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