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COMMENTARY But My Patients Are Different!: Risk Adjustment in 2012 and Beyond

INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (2011)

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INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Volume 32, Issue 10, Pages 987-989

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UNIV CHICAGO PRESS

DOI: 10.1086/662202

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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Infectious Diseases

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