Relationship between hospital ward design and healthcare-associated infection rates: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Open Access
- 29 November 2016
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
- Vol. 5 (1), 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0152-1
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