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Long-Term Outcome of an Intervention to Remove Unnecessary Urinary Catheters, With and Without a Quality Improvement Team, in a Thai Tertiary Care Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anucha Apisarnthanarak ,
Akeruetai Suwannakin ,
Puritat Maungboon ,
David K. Warren  and
Victoria J. Fraser
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Akeruetai Suwannakin
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
Puritat Maungboon
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand
David K. Warren
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
Victoria J. Fraser
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand12120 (anapisarn@yahoo.com)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 11 , November 2008 , pp. 1094 - 1095
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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