Accounting for Competing Events in Multivariate Analyses of Hospital-Acquired Infection Risk Factors
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.162