Surgical-Site Infections after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Discriminating Site-Specific Risk Factors to Improve Prevention Efforts
- 1 April 1998
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 19 (4) , 229-233
- https://doi.org/10.2307/30142412
Abstract
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