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July Effect: Impact of the Academic Year-End Changeover on the Incidence of Healthcare-Associated Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Lauren M. DiBiase ,
David J. Weber ,
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett ,
Clark Denniston  and
William A. Rutala
Lauren M. DiBiase
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
David J. Weber*
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) 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 (UNC) Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Clark Denniston
Affiliation:
Department of Family Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
William A. Rutala
Affiliation:
Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
*
2163 Bioinformatics, CB 7030, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (dweber@unch.unc.edu)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , March 2014 , pp. 321 - 322
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2014

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