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Redefining the National Healthcare Safety Network’s Definition of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: The Hazard of Including Candida Species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Darcy Wooten ,
Jenifer Ramsey  and
Loren G. Miller
Darcy Wooten*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor–University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Jenifer Ramsey
Affiliation:
Division of Hospital Epidemiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Loren G. Miller
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor–University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Los Angeles, California Division of Hospital Epidemiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
*
Infectious Diseases Fellow, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 466, Torrance, CA 90509 (darcy.wooten@gmail.com).
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 11 , November 2014 , pp. 1433 - 1434
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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