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The Tools of Quality Improvement: CQI Versus Epidemiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephen B. Kritchevsky  and
Bryan P. Simmons
Stephen B. Kritchevsky*
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine Memphis, Tennessee
Bryan P. Simmons
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee, Memphis, and the Methodist Hospitals of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
*
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, 877Madison Ave, Memphis, TN 38163
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 9 , September 1995 , pp. 499 - 502
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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