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From Best to Good: Can We “Right-Size” Approaches to Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kathryn B. Kirkland
Kathryn B. Kirkland*
Affiliation:
Section of Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, and the Center for Leadership and Improvement, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire
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Section of Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756 (kathy.kirkland@dartmouth.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 8 , August 2010 , pp. 784 - 785
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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