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Requiem for Reuse of Single-Use and Reusable Devices?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Franz Daschner*
Affiliation:
Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

References

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