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The Growing Importance of Non-Device-Associated Healthcare-Associated Infections: A Relative Proportion and Incidence Study at an Academic Medical Center, 2008-2012

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Lauren M. DiBiase ,
David J. Weber ,
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett ,
Deverick J. Anderson  and
William A. Rutala
Lauren M. DiBiase*
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Deverick J. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
UNC Health Care System, 1001 West Wing, CB #7600101, Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (ldibiase@unch.unc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , February 2014 , pp. 200 - 202
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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