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Improving the Central Line—Associated Bloodstream Infection Surveillance Definition: A Work in Progress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

James P. Steinberg  and
Susan E. Coffin
James P. Steinberg*
Affiliation:
Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia
Susan E. Coffin
Affiliation:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
Emory University Hospital Midtown, Medical Office Tower, 5th Floor, 550 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30308 (jstei02@emory.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 8 , August 2013 , pp. 777 - 779
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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