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Recorded Criteria as a “Gold Standard” for Sensitivity and Specificity Estimates of Surveillance of Nosocomial Infection: A Novel Method to Measure Job Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Birnbaum*
Affiliation:
Applied Epidemiology, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

References

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