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Validity of Self-Declared Teaching Status in Mandatory Public Reporting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Roxie Zarate*
Affiliation:
Washington State Health Department, Olympia
David Birnbaum
Affiliation:
Washington State Health Department, Olympia
*
Washington State Department of Health, Healthcare-Associated Infections Program, PO Box 47811, Olympia, WA 98504-7811, (david.birnbaum@doh.wa.gov)
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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