A district general hospital's method of post-operative infection surveillance including post-discharge follow-up, developed over a five-year period
- 30 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Hospital Infection
- Vol. 49 (1) , 48-54
- https://doi.org/10.1053/jhin.2001.1029
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