What's New in Critical Illness and Injury Science? Identifying Sources of Nosocomial Infections to Improve Patient Outcomes in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Editorial

Charles R Vasquez et al. Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci. 2019 Jan-Mar.

. 2019 Jan-Mar;9(1):1-2.

doi: 10.4103/2229-5151.253768.

¹ Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

No abstract available

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