Reuse of single-use medical devices in Canadian acute-care healthcare facilities, 2001.

Can Commun Dis Rep

Infection Prevention and Control Unit, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

Published: December 2001

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