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Using a Longitudinal Model to Estimate the Effect of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection on Length of Stay in an Intensive Care Unit
American Journal of Epidemiology, 09/18/09
Barnett A et al. – Results confirm the importance of MRSA infection in increasing stay in an intensive care unit but suggest that previous work may have systematically overestimated the effect size.
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