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Vascular Catheters Inserted in the Trenches Versus Guideline Documents: Can the Discrepancies Be Resolved?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert J. Sherertz  and
William R. Jarvis
Robert J. Sherertz
Affiliation:
Section of Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
William R. Jarvis
Affiliation:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 12 , December 2003 , pp. 887 - 889
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