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Safer Generation of Spring-Loaded Fingerstick Lancets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Janine Jagger*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Abstract

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Type
Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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