Who bears the cost of healthcare-acquired surgical site infection?
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 69 (3), 274-282
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2008.04.022
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