Progress in surgical-site infection surveillance

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 361-363

  Platt, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0036323133     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502066     Document Type: Editorial

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