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Completeness of Surveillance Data Reported by the National Healthcare Safety Network: An Analysis of Healthcare-Associated Infections Ascertained in a Tertiary Care Hospital, 2010

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David J. Weber ,
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett ,
Vickie Brown  and
William A. Rutala
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Vickie Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, CB 7030, 547 Burnett-Womack, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (dweber@unch.unc.edu)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 94 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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