Process improvement plan for the reduction of sternal surgical site infections among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery
- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 30 (7), 434-436
- https://doi.org/10.1067/mic.2002.124584
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