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Estimating Excess Length of Stay Due to Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher J. Crnich
Christopher J. Crnich*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, and Public Health and the William S. Middleton Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin
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University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 1685 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705-2281 (cjc@medicine.wisc.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 11 , November 2010 , pp. 1115 - 1117
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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