Risk Factors for Central Venous Catheter-Related Infections in Surgical and Intensive Care Units
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Units Author(s): Maria Luisa Moro, Egidio Franco Viganò, Alessandro Cozzi Lepri and The Central Venous Catheter-Related Infections Study Group Reviewed work(s): Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Apr., 1994), pp. 253-264 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30145577 . Accessed: 19/09/2012 06:18
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