Surveillance as a starting point to reduce surgical-site infection rates in elective orthopaedic surgery
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 51 (3), 179-184
- https://doi.org/10.1053/jhin.2002.1256
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