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Classification of the Surgical Wound: A Time for Reassessment and Simplification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Ronald Lee Nichols
Ronald Lee Nichols*
Affiliation:
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , May 1993 , pp. 253 - 254
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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