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Reply to Graber and Schwartz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joseph Rahimian*
Affiliation:
New York Medical College, St. Vincent Hospital, New York, New York
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New York Medical College, St. Vincent Hospital, 153 W. 11th Street, New York, NY 10011 ([email protected])
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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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