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Understaffing: A Risk Factor for Infection in the Era of Downsizing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Barry M. Farr
Barry M. Farr*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia
*
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Box 473, Charlottesville, VA 22908
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , March 1996 , pp. 147 - 149
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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