Comparison of Two Procedures to Estimate the Hospital Stay Attributable to Nosocomial Infection: Matched Cohort Study versus Analysis of Covariance of the Total Unmatched Cohort
- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Vol. 50 (7) , 773-778
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0895-4356(97)00062-0
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