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Administrative Controls for TB: “Keep Doing What You've Always Done, and You'll Get What You Always Got”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Rebecca Wurtz
Rebecca Wurtz*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois, and the Department of Medicine, Northwestern, University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
*
Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave, Evanston IL 60201; e-mail, rwurtz@nwu.edu
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 7 , July 1996 , pp. 409 - 411
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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