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Surveillance, Reporting, Automation, and Interventional Epidemiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John P. Burke*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, LDS Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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LDS Hospital Medical Office Building, Suite 204, 370-9th Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT 84103
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