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Safety-Engineered Devices in 2012: The Critical Role of Healthcare Workers in Device Selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Janine Jagger  and
Jane Perry
Janine Jagger*
Affiliation:
International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
Jane Perry
Affiliation:
International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
*
PO Box 800764, 1224 Jefferson Park Avenue, Suite 400, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (jcj@virginia.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 6 , June 2013 , pp. 615 - 618
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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