SHEA/APIC Guideline: Infection Prevention and Control in the Long-term Care Facility

Overview

Journal Am J Infect Control

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2008 Sep 13

PMID 18786461

Citations 66

Authors

Philip W Smith

Gail Bennett

Suzanne Bradley

Paul Drinka

Ebbing Lautenbach

James Marx

Lona Mody

Lindsay Nicolle

Kurt Stevenson

Affiliations

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