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Nursing Home Dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lindsay E. Nicolle*
Affiliation:
Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
*
Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine, GC430-820 Skerbrook St, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9r, Canada; e-mail: nicolle@umanitoba.ca
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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