Nosocomial infections and hospital deaths. A case-control study.

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  American Journal of Medicine

• Publication date

  1983-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/0002-9343(83)90453-9PMID 6624773
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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