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Home-Based Preoperative Chlorhexidine Bathing Cloths to Prevent Surgical Site Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joan Webster  and
Sonya Osborne
Joan Webster*
Affiliation:
Centre for Clinical Nursing, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Sonya Osborne
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
*
Level 2, Centre for Clinical Nursing, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia (joan_webster@health.qld.gov.au)
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 10 , October 2011 , pp. 1047
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

References

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