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Handwashing: Are Experimental Models a Substitute for Clinical Trials? Two Viewpoints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Elaine Larson  and
M.L. Rotter
Elaine Larson*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hygiene-Institute of the University, Wenna, Austria
M.L. Rotter
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hygiene-Institute of the University, Wenna, Austria
*
Nutting Chair in Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Editorial
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , February 1990 , pp. 63 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1990

Footnotes

*

No author collaboration was requested. Each author's comments are presented separately, as indicated at the beginning of each section.

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