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Risk Management: An Epidemiologic Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

R. Michael Massanari
R. Michael Massanari*
Affiliation:
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
*
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Program of Epidemiology, Iowa City, IA 52242
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 3 - 6
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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