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Letter to the Editor regarding “Healthcare Personnel Attire in Non-Operating-Room Settings” by Bearman et al

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Marisha Burden ,
Connie Price  and
Richard K. Albert
Marisha Burden*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado; and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
Connie Price
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado; and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
Richard K. Albert
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado; and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
*
Denver Health, 777 Bannock, MC 4000, Denver, CO 80204 (marisha.burden@dhha.org).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , 01 June 2014 , pp. 743 - 744
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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