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|Articles|May 5, 2013
Expert Addresses the Role of the Healthcare Environment in CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog
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Today in CDCs Safe Healthcare Blog, Kerri A. Thom, MD, MS, assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, puts a spotlight on the healthcare environment and its role in spreading bacteria that cause healthcare-associated infections.
Thom discusses this topic in context of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)'s spring meeting, held May 1-4, 2013 in Atlanta, where professionals in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention are focusing on evidence-based research and policies to further identify the impact of the healthcare environment on healthcare-associated infections.
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