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Doing Good and Doing It Well, Especially Where It Is Not Easy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paul A. Tambyah
Paul A. Tambyah*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
*
Dept of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore119074, (mdcpat@nus.edu.sg)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , February 2010 , pp. 142 - 143
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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