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Decreasing Trends of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Multifactorial Synergy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

JaHyun Kang ,
Kenneth J. Smith  and
Cindy L. Bryce
JaHyun Kang*
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kenneth J. Smith
Affiliation:
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cindy L. Bryce
Affiliation:
Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*
Address correspondence to JaHyun Kang, 415 Victoria Building, 3500 Victoria Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261 (kangjh@pitt.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , June 2015 , pp. 656 - 657
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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