Managing infection in the critical care unit: how can infection control make the ICU safe?
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Critical Care Clinics
- Vol. 21 (1), 111-128
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2004.10.002
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