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Economic Impact of Acinetobacter baumannii Infection in the Intensive Care Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce Y. Lee ,
Sarah M. McGlone ,
Yohei Doi ,
Rachel R. Bailey  and
Lee H. Harrison
Bruce Y. Lee*
Affiliation:
Public Health Computational and Operations Research, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sarah M. McGlone
Affiliation:
Public Health Computational and Operations Research, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Yohei Doi
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Rachel R. Bailey
Affiliation:
Public Health Computational and Operations Research, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lee H. Harrison
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
*
Public Health Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR), University of Pittsburgh, 200 Meyran Avenue, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, (BYLl@pitt.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 10 , October 2010 , pp. 1087 - 1089
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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