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Sharing Eyedrops between Patients: When Will It End?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joanne Kinlay
Joanne Kinlay*
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Infection Prevention and Control, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Long-wood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 12 , December 2013 , pp. 1333
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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