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Potential Uses of a National Healthcare-Associated Infection Reporting System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2016

Graham M. Snyder  and
Daniel J. Morgan
Graham M. Snyder*
Affiliation:
Department of Health Care Quality, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Daniel J. Morgan
Affiliation:
VA Maryland Healthcare System and Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Address correspondence to Graham Snyder, MD, 330 Brookline Ave, Mailstop SL-435, Boston, MA 02115 (gsnyder@bidmc.harvard.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 9 , September 2016 , pp. 1109 - 1110
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© 2016 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. All rights reserved. 

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