Promoting appropriate urine culture management to improve health care outcomes and the accuracy of catheter-associated urinary tract infections
- 1 October 2017
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 45 (10), 1143-1153
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.03.006
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