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Infection Control in Long-Term Care Facilities: The Hospital-Based Practitioner's Role

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Nancy Satterfield
Nancy Satterfield*
Affiliation:
ElderCare Consultants, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
*
ElderCare Consultants, Inc., 419 Big Canoe, Jasper GA 30143
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 40 - 47
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993 

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