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A Randomized Trial to Determine Whether Wearing Short-Sleeved White Coats Reduces the Risk for Pathogen Transmission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

Amrita R. John ,
Heba Alhmidi ,
Melany I. Gonzalez-Orta ,
Jennifer L. Cadnum  and
Curtis J. Donskey
Amrita R. John
Affiliation:
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
Heba Alhmidi
Affiliation:
Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
Melany I. Gonzalez-Orta
Affiliation:
Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
Jennifer L. Cadnum
Affiliation:
Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
Curtis J. Donskey*
Affiliation:
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
*
Address correspondence to Curtis J. Donskey, MD, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center 1110W, Cleveland VA Medical Center, 10701 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 (curtisd123@yahoo.com).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , February 2018 , pp. 233 - 234
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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