Severity of illness scoring systems to adjust nosocomial infection rates: A review and commentary
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 24 (6), 429-434
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0196-6553(96)90036-x
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