Hospitals collaborate to decrease surgical site infections
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- 31 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 190 (1), 9-15
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2004.12.001
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