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The effect of hospital-acquired infection with Clostridium difficile on length of stay in hospital

Alan J. Forster, Monica Taljaard, Natalie Oake, Kumanan Wilson, Virginia Roth and Carl van Walraven
CMAJ January 10, 2012 184 (1) 37-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110543
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vol. 184 no. 1 37-42
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.110543
PubMed 
22143235
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  • Published online January 9, 2012.

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  1. Alan J. Forster, MD MSc⇓,
  2. Monica Taljaard, PhD,
  3. Natalie Oake, MSc,
  4. Kumanan Wilson, MD MSc,
  5. Virginia Roth, MD,
  6. Carl van Walraven, MD MSc
  1. From the Clinical Epidemiology Program (Forster, Taljaard, Oake, Wilson, Roth, van Walraven), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine (Forster, Taljaard, Roth, van Walraven) University of Ottawa; Clinical Quality and Performance Management (Forster, Oake), The Ottawa Hospital; the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (Forster, Wilson, Roth, van Walraven), University of Ottawa; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Forster, Wilson, van Walraven), Ottawa, Ont.
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr. Alan J. Forster, aforster{at}ohri.ca
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