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A Risk Index for Sternal Wound Infection After Cardiovascular Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

James T. Lee
James T. Lee*
Affiliation:
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Letters to the Editor
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 8 , August 2003 , pp. 558 - 559
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

References

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