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Nursing Home Dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lindsay E. Nicolle
Lindsay E. Nicolle*
Affiliation:
Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
*
Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine, GC430-820 Skerbrook St, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9r, Canada; e-mail: nicolle@umanitoba.ca
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 12 , December 1997 , pp. 806 - 808
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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