Risk-adjusted infection rates in surgery: a model for outcome measurement in hospitals developing new quality improvement programmes
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 44 (1) , 43-52
- https://doi.org/10.1053/jhin.1999.0655
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